90 AURICULIDiE. 



14. Cassidtjla AtTEIS FELIS. B.M. 



Shell imperforate, ovate, rather thick, minutely striated spi- 

 rally, dark brown ; spire conoidal, rather pointed ; suture slight, 

 regular; whorls seven, moderately convex, the last forming 

 three-fourths of the total length, ventricose, marked usually 

 with a single pale hand at its upper circumference, furnished at 

 the base with a white arched keel surrounding the narrow umbi- 

 lical region ; aperture nearly perpendicular, sinuate, rounded in 

 front, contracted in the middle ; parietal plaits two, the upper 

 vertical, near the insertion of the right margin, the other com- 

 pressed, strong, scarcely descending inwards ; columellar plait 

 twisted, bifid externally ; peristome white or flesh-coloured, ex- 

 panded, thickened externally and marked with a white streak ; 

 right margin widely sinuate and emarginate above, then dilated, 

 flat, crenulate; columellar margin thick, spreading narrowly. 

 Length 28, greatest breadth 17 mill. 



Voluta coffea, Chemn. Conch, ix. 2. p. 45. t. 121. f. 1043, 1044. 



Wood, Ind. t. 19. f. 15, not Linn. 

 Bulimus amis felis, Bruy. in Enc. 3Ieth. i. p. 343. n. 77. 



(Favanne, Conch, t. 65. f. H. 7.) 

 Ellobium inflammatum, Bolt. 3Ius. p. 106. n. 1352, ed. ult. p. 74. 



n. 1352. 

 Auricula auris felis, Blainr. in Diet. Sc. Nat. iii. Suppl. p. 132. 



Woodward, Mon. Moll p. 173. f. 99. 

 Auricula felis, Ferussac, Prodr. p. 105. n. 25 ; Enc. 3Ieth. pi. 460. 

 f. 5. 



Lam. Hist. vi. 2. p. 138. n. 5 ; ed. Desk. viii. p. 326. 



Menke, Syn. ed. ult. p. 35. 



Pot. and Mich. Gcd. Douai, i. p. 201. 



Ktist. in Cliemn. ed. nov. i. 13. t. 4. f. 9, 10 ; Auric, p. 16. 

 t. 3. f. 3. 



Peeve, Condi. Si/st. ii. pi. 187. f. 6. 



Jay, Catal. 1850, p. 264. 

 Auricula nucleus, Kiist. Auric, p. 70. t. 7. f. 3, 4. 

 Auricula fusca, Hombr. and Jacq. Voy. Pole Sad, Zool. v. p. 34. 



pi. 9. f. 7-9. 

 Cassidulus felis, Seek, Ind. p. 105. n. 2 (Ene. Meth.). 

 Cassidulus Chemnitzii, Beck. Ind. p. 105. n. 1. 

 Cassidula felis, Anton, Verz. p. 48. n. 1770. 



Gray in Proc. Zool, Soc. 1847, p. 179. 

 Cassidula inflammata, March, Cat. Told, p. 38. n. 774.^ 

 Cassidula coffea, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool, Soc. 1854, p. 31 ; 



Gen. rec. Moll ii. p. 238. pi. 82. f. 2, 2a. 

 Cassidula auris felis, 31. E. Gray, Fir/. Moll. Anim. pi. 304. f. 3. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 120, 121 ; Mon. Auric, p. 117. 



