204 SCALAKIAD.E. 



foot obtusely triangular, not cirrliated posteriorly, grooved 

 below, furnished in front with a fold or mentum. 



Nearly one hundred species of this genus have been 

 described. The majority inhabit tropical regions ; the 

 researches of Mr. Cuming among the Philippine Islands 

 have made us acquainted with a great part of them. 



S. TuuTONis, Turton. 



Variegated ; ribs depressed, mostly very narrow, but with a 

 few broader ones intermingled ; interstices with very fine spiral 

 striulaj. 



Plate LXX. fig. 1, 'J. 



Turbo Turtonis, Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 208, f. 97. 



Scularia Turtoni, Fi-eming, Brit. Animals, p. 311. — Couch, Cornish Fauna, 

 pt. 2, p. 56. — Bnt. Marine Conch, p. 157. — Brown, lllust. 

 Conch. G. B. p. 21, pi. 57, f. 7 — Blainville, Fauno Fiau- 

 qaise, Moll. p. 317. 

 „ communis, var. Kiener, Coquilles Vivan. Scalar, p. 1 3, pi. 4, f. 10, b. 

 „ tcuuicostata, Michaud, Bull. Lin. Soc. Bordeaux, 1829, p. 2G0, f. 1. — 

 Blainv. Faune Franc^aise, Moll. p. 318. — PortEZ and 

 Mich. Galerie Douai, Moll. p. 345. — Philii'PI, Moll. Sicil. 

 vol. ii. p. 145. 

 „ Turtonis, SowERBY, Thesaur. Conch, vol. i. p. 100, pi. 34, f. 10(i, 107, 



108. — Alder, Cat. Moll, Northuinb. and Durh. p. 4o. 

 ,, pianicosla, BivoN. Nuov. Gen. e Spec. Conch, pi. 2, f. 13 fide 

 Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 1G8, pi. 10, f. 4. — Desh. 

 Lam. Anim. s. Vert. vol. ix. p. 77. 



Notwithstanding that the present shell approaches the 

 succeeding in general aspect, its essential differences are 

 of easy recognition. It is of a rather produced turreted 

 form, strong, rather opaque, imperforate, moderately glossy, 

 and indistinctly encircled, on a livid ground, with inter- 

 rupted bands of chocolate-colour ; of these, there are two 

 on each whorl, and a third additional one near the base 

 of the body, which exceeds the rest in breadth and in- 



