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water in Toibay, iionr Brixliani (S.H.) ; has been procured 

 at Exmouth by Mr. Clark; and from Loch Fyne and the 

 west coast of Scotland, by Mr. Barlee, who has likewise 

 dredged it in Galway. 



0. PLicATA, Montagu. 



Turreted-subconical, smooth, imperforated, rather strong ; 

 periphery not angulated ; whorls rather high ; mouth narrow, at 

 most occupying one-third of the length : outer lip arched, smooth 

 within: pillar lip arched, scarcely reflected; fold rather promi- 

 nent, subcentral. 



Plate XCVIII. fig. 1,2. 



Turbo pHcaius, Mont. Test. Brit. vol. ii. p. 325 ; Suppl. pi. 21, f. 2. — Turt. 



Conch. Diction, p. 222 (chiefly). 

 Voluta pHcata, Maton and Rack. Trans. Linn. See. vol. viii. p. 131. — Woon, 

 Index Testae, pi. 19, f. 27. 

 „ plicatula, Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 509. 

 Odosiomia Annce, Macgil. Moll. Aberd. p. 157, from small worn shells, teste 

 Jeffreys from types, copied in Brit. Marine Conch, p. 2(i0, 

 and Brown, 111. Conch. G. B. as Jamiriia Ann(E. 

 „ plkata, Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist, new ser. vol. ii. p. 339. 

 Jaminia pUcafa, Brown, 111. Conch. G, B. p. 21, pi. 8, f. 10. 



Like most of its genus this shell is glossy white ; it 

 is moderately strong, quite smooth, and but slightly trans- 

 parent. The form is turreted-subconical, being subcy- 

 lindraceous below, and gradually tapering above to a mo- 

 derately fine and rather projecting point. The spire is 

 composed of five or six turns, that are tolerably high, 

 merely convex, neither swollen nor inflected at their bases 

 (as in some of the allied species), of slow longitudinal 

 increase, and divided from each other by a tolerably dis- 

 tinct, but extremely fine, oblique suture. The body, which 

 barely occupies two-fifths of the entire length, is not angu- 

 lated at the periphery, but gently slopes at the base, which 



