CHEMNITZIA. 253 



We have taken it alive in ten fathoms water, Milford 

 Haven (M'Andrews and E. F), and dead in seven fathoms 

 at Dartmouth. It was first noticed at Exmouth by Mr. 

 Clark. Mr. Jeffreys has found it at Fishguard, and Mr. 

 Hanley in Guernsey. It ranges to the Mediterranean. 



C. RUFEscENs, Forbes. 



Moderately large, subulate, thin, not scalar, either pale reddish, 

 with darker spiral bands, or the zones paler on a rufous ground ; 

 whorls convex ; ribs crowded, often arched ; their intervals with 

 at least six raised revolving lines ; basal declination rounded ; 

 outer lip moderately arched. 



Plate XCIV. fig. 1. 



TiirritdUi indistiiicta, Fle:\iin'g (not Turbo indisiinclus of Mont.), Brit. Aiiini. 



p. 304 ; copied Brit. Marine Conch, p. 191. 

 Chemnitxia rii/esccns, Forbes, Brit. Associat. Report, 1845. — Jeffrej-s, Ann. 



Nat. Hist. vol. xix. (1847) p. 311 (no descr.). 

 Turhonilla interrujHa, Lov:^N, Index Moll. Scandinav. p. 18 ? 

 Odostomia scalaris, Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist, new ser. vol. ii. p. 311 (not 

 variety). 



The shell is turreted, subulate, thin, semitransparent, but 

 little glossy, and either encircled, on a ground of squalid or 

 reddish white, with two rufous or reddish tawny bands, 

 one narrow and subsutural, the other broader and infra- 

 medial (sometimes occupying the entire lower half of the 

 whorl), on each turn of the spire, with a broadish addi- 

 tional (and occasionally confluent) band of the same tint 

 towards the lower end of the body, or more rarely of a 

 rufous cast (becoming paler towards the tip), and adorned 

 with a single narrow strip of white, that revolves rather 

 above the middle of each volution, and a final bar of white 

 on the extreme base of the shell. The surface is richly 

 sculptured by thin and much projecting, often arched, 



