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notch which is more or less distinct ; pillar furnished 

 with plaits. 



GENUS. MARGINELLA. 



Oval-oblong, smooth ; the spire short ; the outer lip 

 margined externally with a varix ; base of the aper- 

 ture slightly emarginated : pillar with nearly equal 

 plaits. 

 M. DONOVANI. Payraudeau. VOLUTA L^vis. Don. 



t. 165. D.p. 527. Lin. T. 8. p. 133. ERATO L. 



Reeve, t. 285. /. 3. CYPRJEA VOLUTA. Mont. p. 203. 



never met with the shell in any cabinet. It is most 

 assuredly not a Cancellaria, which Mr. Fleming 

 (from whose labors I have freely drawn) has considered it 

 I transcribe the description from the Testacca Brittanica, 

 V. HYALINA. Mont. Sup. p. 101. t. 29. /. 5. 

 Pellucid, white, smooth, tapering to an obtuse point, 

 with six flat volutions scarcely denned by the separating 

 line ; body whorl more than half the length of the shell ; 

 the aperture contracted, the base truncated and canalicu- 

 lated ; outer lip smooth ; columella plicated with seven 

 or eight fine thread-like striae that originate from behind 

 the pillar lip, length one quarter of an inch, breadth 

 more than one third its length. Dunbar. 



