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Var. 2. elongata. Spire elongated. Falmouth (J. G. J.), 

 B.C. Near Birmingham (G. Sherriff Tye), near Wakefield 

 (J. Hebden), J.C. 



Var. 3. tincta. Shell shorter and broader, light brown, with 

 a purplish mouth. It resembles a Bulimus in form. Swansea 

 and Dorsetshire (J. G. J.), Anglesea (Gibbs), B.C. Near 

 Birmingham (G. Sherriff Tye), near Wakefield (J. Hebden). 

 J.C. 



Var. 4. conica. Shell conic, greyish-white, with a deep suture 

 and an umbilical cleft. Banks of the Thames from Hammer- 

 smith to Woolwich (J. G. J.), Cork (Humphreys), B.C. Yatton, 

 Somerset (McMurtrie). 



Var. 5. roseo-labiata. Month of the shell furnished inside 

 with a rose-coloured or white rib. Belfast (Thompson), Cork 

 (Humphreys), B.C. Near Birmingham (G. Sherriff Tye), J.C. 

 Duddingston, Edinburgh, Luffness Links, E. Lothian, and 

 near Moffat (McMurtrie). 



Var. 6. albida. Shell white. Near Leeds, a single speci- 

 men (J. W. Taylor), J.C., May 1874. Near Southport 

 (E. Collier). 



Monst- decollata. Spire truncated, not uncommon. 



7. L. TRUNCA'TULA,* MULLER. PL. V. 



Body rather opaque, blackish-brown above, pale slate-colour 

 below, finely speckled with black ; tentacles broadish at the base, 

 narrower towards the tips, which are rounded, rather transparent, 

 pale grey with very fine black specks ; eyes almost sessile ; foot 

 somewhat truncate in front, narrowing very gradually behind 

 where it is rounded. 



Shell oblong-conic, turreted, moderately thick, rather glossy, 

 yellowish horn-colour, rather strongly striate in the line of 

 growth, and with finer, close-set, intermediate striae, and ridged 

 spirally as in the last species ; epidermis thin ; whorls 5-6, 

 rounded, but somewhat truncate above, body whorl occupying 

 more than one-half of the length of the shell; spire tapering 



* Somewhat truncated. 



