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outer and pillar lips, which are ultimately welded together ; 

 it is obliquely truncated towards the base, and terminates out- 

 side in a deep and rounded notch with a thick edge : outer lip 

 nearly semicircular ; that part which consists of the last-formed 

 rib slopes outwards, and is strengthened by a continuation of 

 the spiral ridges ; the edge is slightly prominent ; inside fluted, 

 and furnished mth 7 or 8 small tubercles or teeth : mn^r lip 

 thick, united above with the outer lip ; at the base of the pillar 

 is a groove and umbilical chink, as in Triton cutaceus, but it is 

 much smaller and less distinct : pillar broad and glossy : oper- 

 culum reddish-horncolour, thinner than in the last-mentioned 

 species, irregularly laminated, and microscopically and super- 

 ficiaUy wrinkled. L. 2'2d. B. 1-125. 



Yar. sculpta. Spiral ridges much more prominent and keel- 

 like, especially those on the upper part of each whorl, giving 

 the shell a scalariform appearance ; space below the suture 

 deeply excavated. 



Habitat : Stony ground, at low-water mark and in 

 the laminarian and coralline zones, on the southern and 

 western coasts of England and Scotland, and throughout 

 Ireland and Wales; estuary of the Thames (Thomas 

 and J. G. J.); trawled off Yarmouth (Rose); Scar- 

 borough (Bean) ; Northumberland and Durham (Alder) ; 

 dredged in Berwick Bay, 50 f. (Mennell) ; Moray Firth 

 (Gordon) ; Aberdeen (Macgillivray) . All the specimens 

 procured from the northern coasts were dead. I dredged 

 the variety off Guernsey. M. erinaceus occurs in quater- 

 nary deposits at Strethill (Maw); Macclesfield (Darbi- 

 shiix); Kelsey Hill (Prestwich); Moel Tryfaen (Darbi- 

 shire and Drury Lowe); Belfast (Grainger); Ireland and 

 Clyde beds (J. Smith and Forbes) ; " Mammalian Crag ■'^ 

 at Bramerton (S. Wood); "Norwich Crag^-* (Witham, 

 fide Woodward) ; Italian tertiaries (Brocchi, Scacchi, 

 and Philippi) . Living in the Cattegat (Loven) ; North 

 Atlantic from Boulogne (Bouchard) to Madeira (M^An- 

 drew) and the Azores (Drouet) ; Mediterranean (Linne 



