Shells found in Essex County. 73 



TURBO INFLATUS. Totten. Latin, swelled. 

 Totten's swollen Turbo. 



A very delicate and pretty species, not so common as the pre- 

 ceding, but found by a careful investigation. Color, "brown- 

 ish yellow or horn color : operculum round, horny, multispirate." 



Length about a third of an inch. 



Discovered and described by Lieutenant Totten, in Silliman's 

 Journal, vol, xxvi., p. 368, fig. 5 of plate. 



Found near City Mills, by J, True. 



My Cabinet. 



TURBO MINUTUS, ' Totten, Latin, minute, small. 



Little Turbo. 



Shell very small, conic, thin, whorls six. Color yellowish or 

 brown, within whitish. Length an eighth of an inch. May be 

 found in profusion adhering to the Confervse in the ditches on 

 salt marshes. 



Totten, in Silliman's Journ., vol, xxvi., p. 369, fig. 6 of plate. 

 My Cabinet and Cabinet of Society, 



TURBO INCARNATUS. Couthouy. Latin, flesh colored. 

 SYN, MARGARITA. Sowerby. 



An exceedingly beautiful species, taken from stomachs of cod 

 and other large fish, by Capt. Couthouy, and described by him 

 with the following cospecies. Shell thin, dark red, interior 

 perlaceous, resplendent, 



A single specimen exists in the Society's Cabinet, collected 

 on Phillips' beach, five years since, and others have been sub- 

 sequently found at the same place, by J. True. 



For minute description, see Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., 

 p. 98, pi. iii., fig. 13. 



Cabinet of Society. 



TURBO CINEREUS. Couthouy. Latin, ashen. 



Shell thin, grey colored, whorls five, with numerous transverse 

 elevated striae ; umbilicus deep. 



Couthouy in Boston Journ. Nat. Hist,, vol. ii., p. 99, pi. iii., 

 fig. 9. 



