476 CONID^. 



Welsh coasts (M'Aiidrew and E.F.) ; Oaermarthen Bay 

 (Jeffreys) ; Guernsey (Barlee) ; Clyde in fifteen to twenty 

 fathoms (M'Andrew) ; a slender variety in Loch Fyne 

 (A. M'Nab) ; Portmarnock and Bray in Ireland, but very 

 rare (Thompson) ; Arran Islands, Galvvay (Barlee). It 

 ranges to the Mediterranean, 



M, xEBrjLA, Montagu. 



Turreted-fusiform, very finely decussated by longitudinal and 

 spiral striulos ; ten or eleven ribs on each of the final volutions ; 

 colouring uniform or banded, not lineated ; spire almost twice as 

 long as the mouth ; throat smooth ; lip never thickened ; labial 

 sinus quite obsolete. 



Plate CXIV. figs. 7, 8, 9, and (Animal) Plate R. R. fig. 7. 



Murex nebula, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 26?, pi. 16, f. 6. — Maton and Rack. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 143. — Rack. Dorset Catalog, p. 46, 



pi. 14, f. 16. — TuRT. Conch. Diction, p. 92 Dillvv. Recent 



Shells, vol. ii. p. 743. — Wood, Index Testaceolog. pi. 27, 

 f. 129. 

 Mangelia Ginnania, Risso, H. N. Europe Merid. vol. iv. p. 220, f. 99 ? ? 

 Fusus nebula, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 350. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 203, 

 fig. 93— Brown, lUust. Conch. G. B. p. 7, pi. 5, f. 10.— John- 

 ston, Berwick. Club, vol. i. p. 236 (probably). 

 Pleurotoma nebula, Blainv. Faune Franq. Moll. pi. 4, f. 3, probably. — Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. vol. i. Pleur. pi. 23, f. 198. 

 „ Bertrandii, Philippi (notPayraud.), Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 168, pi. 1 1, 



f. 20 (not vol. ii.) 

 „ IcBviyatiim, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 199, pi. 11, f. 17, and 



vol. ii. p. 169 (from type). — Thompson, Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. vol. xviii. p. 384. — Kiener, Coq. Vivant. Pleurot. 

 pi. 27, f. 2. 

 „ Ginnanianum, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 168, pi. 26, f. 6. — 



Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. Hist. (1847) vol. xix. p. 312. 

 Fusus pyramidaius. Brown, lllust. Conch G. B. p. 7, pi. 5, f. 8, 9? 

 Mangilia nebula, Loven, Index IMoll. Scand. p. ]Z'f 

 Mangelia ,, Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. iii. pi. 6, f. 45. 

 Clavatula „ Seaules Wood, Crag MoUusca, p. 60, pi. 7, f. 10 ? 



Of this pretty shell there are three principal variations, 

 which many collectors, of late years, have regarded as 



