CIIEMNITZIA. 251 



This very scarce shell, the animal of which has not as 

 yet been observed, was first dredged, though dead, in seven 

 fathoms at the entrance of Dartmouth Harbour (M 'An- 

 drew and E. F.). It has since been taken alive in Torbay 

 near Brixham (S. H. and Dr. Battersby). It has been 

 taken in Asturias by Mr. M'Andrew. 



C. scALARis, Philippi. 



Scalar, rather short, white, with two tawny revolving fillets ; 

 ribs very proraiueut, narrow, straight, their rather l)road intervals 

 adorned with several raised spiral lines, basal declination tlattish ; 

 mouth subquadrate. 



Plate XCIV. fig. 5. 



^lelania scalaris, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 157, pi. 9, f- 9. 



Clumnitzia „ Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 137. 



Odostomia „ Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist, new series, vol. ii. p. 346 (var. a.) 



Among collectors this shell has generally been distin- 

 guished by the manuscript name Jeffi^eysii^ a merited com- 

 pliment to one, v.hose ardour in collecting the materials 

 for the fitting study of the British Testacea is only equalled 

 by the liberality with which he throws open his stores to 

 all who, like himself, have devoted their earnest attention 

 to the advancement of Conchology. 



This elegant shell is turreted-scalariform, not particu- 

 larly slender, and tapers rather quickly to a bluntish 

 point. It is moderately strong, more or less glossy, and 

 girt on a white ground, with spiral bands of fulvous, of 

 which hue there are two bands, one narrow and subsu- 

 tural, the other broader and inframedlal, on each of the 

 principal whorls of the spire, with a third additional one 

 on the body that revolves from the i)osterior end of the 

 suture to the anterior base of the aperture. The worn 



