338 TURBINID.i:. 



Phasianella pulla^^ Linne. 



Turbo pv.Uus, Linn. S. X. p. 1233. P. pullus, F. & H. ii. p. 538, pi. kix. 

 f. 1-3, and (animal) pi. D D. f. 5. 



Body yelloTrish- white, marked transversely with pink or 

 purplish-brown lines, and tinged with green : mantle thick, 

 emerald-green ; margin plain ; lappets placed between the 

 eyes and front pair of the pedal filaments, fan-shaped and di- 

 gitated or frilled ; the pectinations are delicately ciliated, those 

 of the right-hand lappet being deeply divided, and those of the 

 other lappet sHghter or less distinct : head reddish-brown, 

 terminating in a semi cylindrical snout, which is short and does 

 not project beyond the foot ; it is sometimes lineated length- 

 wise ; front edge scalloped : tentacles rather flattened, long, 

 slender, and tapering to a blunt point, frequently edged with 

 a brown line, thickly clothed with fine and short ciha : eyes 

 raised on short, yellow, white, or green tubercles or stalks, one 

 at the outer base of each tentacle : foot oblong, folding inwards 

 towards the front, tapering at each end, and divided down the 

 middle by a narrow groove; margin double-edged : appendages 

 3 on each side (the middle one being usually very short and 

 sometimes inconspicuous), equidistant from each other, about 

 half the length and size of the tentacles, and likewise setose. 



Shell conic-oval and somewhat pointed at each end, semi- 

 transparent, and glossy : sculpture none when examined with 

 an ordinary lens of a one-inch focus ; but under a stronger mi- 

 croscopical power the surface appears covered with close-set 

 but iiTegular longitudinal striae and with a few very shght and 

 indistinct spiral lines : colour various, usually yellowish with 

 reddish or purple flame-hke and obliquely longitudinal streaks 

 of difterent widths, which are frequently broken or zigzag, 

 interspersed with spots, sometimes altogether spotted with red ; 

 the ground-colour is occasionally white ; and rarely the colour 

 is uniform chocolate : spire short and rather abrupt : whorls 

 5-6, convex, but slightly compressed towards the suture ; 

 the last exceeds in size all the others put together : suture 

 well defined : mouth roundish-oval, spread out at the base : 

 outer Up thin, incurved above : inner lip flat and white, re- 

 flected on the pillar, which is thick and curved : inside partially 

 nacreous but not iridescent : operculum porcelain-white, gib- 

 bous outside, somewhat flexuous on the other side, and having 

 on the lower side of the mouth a small spire of a few rapidly 



* Dark-coloured. 



