CIIEMNITZIA. 245 



C RUFA, Philippi. 



Either reddish, or with a single revolving band of tawny orange 

 on a white ground ; ribs not oblique, their intervals moderately 

 broad, and spirally grooved. 



Plate XCIII. fig. 3, 4. Animal, pi. FF. fig. 4. 



? Turho simillimiis,* Mont. Test. Brit. Suppl, p. 135, and Laskky, Mem, 

 Werner. Soc. vol. i. pi. 8, f. 15, from which, Turt. 

 Conch. Diction, p. 209 ; Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 

 856 ; Wood, Index Testae, pi. 31, f. 98 ; Turritdla 

 simillima, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 303 ; Brit. Marine 

 Conch, p. 190 ; Pt/rainis simillimus. Brown, 111. Conch. 

 G. B. p. 1 5, pi. 9, f. 48. 



jMclauia nifa, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 156, pi. 9, f. 7. 



Turritella fulvocincta, ThOiMPSon, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 98. — Brit. Marine 

 Conch, p. 191, f. 19. 



PartJienia crenata, Lowe, Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1840, p. 41 (undescribed). 



CJiemnitzia rufa, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 136. 



ryramis crenatus. Brown, IU. Conch. G. B. p. 14, pi. 9, f. 53. 



Turbo7iilla „ LovEN, Index Moll. Scandinav. p. 18 (probably). 



C/wmnitzia fulvocincta. Alder, Cat. Moll. Northumb. and Durham, p. 48. 



Odostomia rufa, Jeffreys, Ann. and Mag. N. H. ser. 2, vol. ii. (1848) p. 346. 



We have, with some slight hesitation, followed the 

 opinion of Loveu, Jeffreys, and Akler, in regarding this 

 shell as identical with the rufa of Philippi, although it 

 differs in some minor particulars. The Mediterranean type 

 presented to us (unfortunately the last whorl was broken 

 away) by the author of the species is rather more slender 

 and solid, has the ribs, which are twenty-three in number, 

 quite straight, the volutions quite flat, and the colour 



* At least, it agrees better with this than with iiiiy other of our known Chem- 

 nitzicB (and assuredly it belongs to that genus). Montagu, in addition to his 

 brief description, remarks, that it resembles ekgantlssima, but is less slender, and 

 has fewer and more distant riblets, that are not slanting, but arched, and with 

 broader intervals. Laskey is said to have taken the shell from the shore of 

 Jura. 



" Slender, white, with eight or nine volutions, furnished with fourteen ribs or 

 elevated stri;e ; these stand straight in the line of the shell ; apex pointed ; base 

 destitute of striiE; aperture subovate. Length three-eighths of an inch." (Mont.) 



