98 AURIC ULIDJE. 



straight, sharp, thickened within by a white deposit. Length 



50, breadth 16 mill. 



Auricula turrita, Pfr. in Proc. Z. S. 1854, p. 121 ; Syn. Auric. 



n. 128 ; Novit Condi, i. p. 13. n. 22. t. 4. f. 8, 9 ; Mon. Auric. 



p. 129. 

 Ellobium turritum, II. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 238. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



7. Auricula dactylus. 



Shell imperforate, ovate-oblong, solid, coarsely striated longi- 

 tudinally, granulated along the suture by deep furrows (the 

 spiral stria? being slight in the remaining parts), olivaceous- 

 brownish, shining; spire swollen conic, with the apex rather 

 blunt, eroded; whorls seven, the upper ones flat, increasing 

 slowly, the penultimate broad, inflated, the last not descending, 

 forming nearly two-thirds of the total length, indistinctly angled 

 above the middle, very slightly attenuated at base ; aperture 

 scarcely oblique, sinuately semiovate ; parietal plaits two, white, 

 the upper knot-shaped, the other strong, oblique ; columellar plait 

 very slightly twisted, nearly perpendicular, somewhat grooved 

 inwards, produced outwards to the margin; peristome thick, 

 straight ; right margin deeply sinuate above, much thickened 

 within; columellar margin dilated, flat, adnate. Length 52, 

 greatest breadth 25 mill. 

 Auricula dactylus, Pfr. in Proc. Z. S. 1854, p. 151 ; Syn. Auric. 



n. 129 ; Novit. Conch, i. p. 15. n. 24. t. 5. f. 15, 16 ; lion. Auric. 



P- 129. 

 Ellobium dactylus, H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 23 1. 



Hab. Borneo. 



8. Auricula auris Judje. B.M. 

 Shell subrimate, oblong, solid, wrinkled and slightly granu- 

 lated, white, covered with a fulvous or chestnut-coloured pe- 

 riostraca ; spire convexly conic, rather pointed, often eroded ; 

 suture slight, irregular ; whorls six to seven, scarcely convex, 

 the last descending, forming three-fifths of the total length ; 

 aperture perpendicular, acuminated above, broader at base, 

 narrowed by three plaits ; parietal plaits two, deeply placed, 

 the upper knot-shaped, blunt, the other strong, somewhat com- 

 pressed, slightly ascending ; columellar plait slightly twisted, 

 nearly perpendicular ; peristome thick, with the margins united 

 by a thin deposit; right margin sinuated above, thickened within 

 by an elevated callus. Length 44-53, breadth 18 mill. 



Bulla Auris Juda3, Linn. Syst. ed. 10. p. 728. n. 345 ; Mus. Lud. 

 Ulr. p. 590. n. 257. 



