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in the littoral zone, but I believe it also inhabits the lanii- 

 navian and coralline regions." — Clark, MSS. 



Although by no means abundant in the living state it ap- 

 pears to be met with in very many localities, and to extend 

 throughout the coast of the United Kingdom. From the 

 ample list in Mr. JefFreys' Monograph we extract the fol- 

 lowing : Salcombe Bay, Exmouth, and Torquay in South 

 Devon ; Weymouth ; Scarborough ; Northumberland ; Ber- 

 wickshire ; Isle of Man ; Tenby; Swansea Bay; Dublin 

 and Bantry Bays ; Gal way ; Lerwick ; Aberdeenshire ; 

 western shore of Scotland. 



0. EULiMoiDEs, Hanley. 



Whorls smooth, a little flattened ; spire shorter than, or barely 

 exceeding, the body, of^ which the basal declination is gradual. 

 Mouth rather effuse at the base, occupying half, or nearly so, 

 of the total length. Pillar lip elongated, straightish, rather 

 broadly reflected ; fold distinct, rather high up. Axis imper- 

 forated. 



Plate XCV. fig. 1, 2, 3. 



Turbo pallidus, (not of Mont.) Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 223. 

 Odostomia imidentata, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 310 (teste Jeftreys). — Mac- 

 GiLLiv. Moll, Aberd, p. 154 (teste .leif. from specimens). 

 „ Eulimoides, Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc 1844, p. 18 ; Brit. Marine 



Conch, p. xxxvi. fig. 12. 

 „ crassa, Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xv. p. 315, pi. 1.'), f. 5 (from 



type). 

 „ pallida. Alder, Cat. Moll. Northumb. and Durh. p. 51 (no descrip- 

 tion).— Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist, new scr. vol. ii. p. 335. 

 „ notaki, Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist, new ser. vol. ii. p. 33G. 



This species is what is usually marked in cabinets as the 

 pallida of Montagu, with whose description, figure, and 

 specimen, it is decidedly at variance. 



In the more characteristic examples the shape is fusi- 

 form oval, but a considerable latitude of form seems per- 



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