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striolate, suture deeply impressed, body somewhat flat- 

 tened above and angulated towards its lower part ; spire 

 scarcely occupying one third of the shell, the apex 

 obtuse ; mouth very large, roundish, lip united at right 

 angles, throat chocolate brown. 0,33. Aberdeen, 

 Wexford, fyc. Very like the young ofRudis. 



L.PATULA J<?#reys.-Semi-globose, rather solid, grey- 

 chocolate colour with coarse and rather distant raised 

 spiral striae ; whorls three ; the aperture occupying three 

 fourths the length of the shell, peritreme white, throat 

 glossy chocolate. 0,40. Eddystone Rock. * 



ODOSTOMIA SCALARIS Macg. Ab. p. 154. Ovate- 

 conical, hyaline white, whorls five, transparent, glossy, 

 faintly striated, moderately convex ; the suture spi- 



* Those who may adopt this genus (not considering 

 its type the common periwinkle to be a typical Turbo 

 and consequently that if that genus must be again de- 

 severed, the name at least should be retained for the 

 present group) must add to these species our Turbo 

 Littoreus (L. VCLGARIS Sow. ) Petraeus. Rudis, Tene- 

 brosus, Fabalis (the note has erroneously been appended 

 at page 167 to that species] and Neritoides. 



