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8. Pear-shaped; yellowish- white, with iri-egular reddish-brown spots; 

 spire short, mucronate ; apex inaminilliform ; beak long; columella with 

 four plaits ; in adult specimens, the shell is covered with a very thick 

 opaque yellow-brown epidermis. Six inches long. Inhabits the Indian 

 ocean. 



35. Pleurotoma Nodifera. — The Javanese Pleurotonia. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 

 7. Fusiform, turrited ; volutions somewhat angulated, upper ones smooth ; 

 under volutions and body transversely striated with angulated oblique 

 nodules at the suture; outer lip deeply crenulated, with a large uotch ; 

 reddish yellow. One inch and a half long. Inhabits the seas around Java. 



36. CerWiimn semigranosum. — The .Semigranulated Cerithium. Plate 

 Ixxiv. fig. 9. Fusiform, turrited; apex acute; transverse minute striae, 

 and sulcated grarjulations; the suture with double spiral rows of large 

 granules ; colour reddish brown. One inch and a half h)ng. Inhabits llie 

 eeas of New Holland. 



37. Turritella terebra. — The Augur Turritella. Plate Ixxiv. fig. II. 

 Greatly turrited, with acute, transverse striae ; yeliowish-browu ; apex 

 usually reddi.-h. Two inches long. Inhabits the European seas. 



3S. Phasianella puellus.— The Childish Phasianella. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 1-i. 

 Smooth, glossy; volutions inflated; skin coloured with spots of crimson or 

 rich reddish-brort n. One quarter of an inch long. Inhabits the coast of 

 Britain. 



39. Planaxis sulcata. — The Furrowed Planaxis. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 10. 

 Imperforate, transversely furrowed ; grayish-white, and spotted with black, 

 forming oblique longitudinal fasci» ; outer lip internally crenulated and 

 striated. One inch long. Inhabits the American seas. 



10. Turbo setosus.—rhe Bristly Turbo. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 17. Thick, 

 transversely and deejily sulcated, and longitudinally striated; spire short; 

 volutions rounded ; lip crenulated; variegated with white, green, and brown ; 

 inside pearlaceous. Two inches long. Inhabits the Indian seas. 



41. Monodonta coronaria — The Thick.I.ipped Monodonta. Plate Ixxiv. 

 fig. 10. Covered with numerous, small, scabrous, acute, tuberi'les ; outer 

 lip very thick; apex blunt, white; the columella reddi.sli. One inch aud a 

 quarter long. Inhabits the Chinese seas. 



i-i. Trochus Zizi/p/iinus. — The Jlagician Troclius. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 2. 

 With strong transverse striae ; colour livid, with undulated streaks of 

 reddish flesh-colour, or brownish carnation. One inch long. Inhabits the 

 European seas. 



43. Rotella t^estrarius. — The Kindred Rotella. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 18. Pale 

 skin-coloured, or citron-coloured, the upper part of body and spire spotted 

 with dark brown. Half an inch long. Inhabits the Indian ocean. 



44. Solarium perspectivum. — The Perspective Solarium. Plate Ixxiv. 

 fig. 23. Cream-yellow, with brown or chestnut, and white bands on the 

 sutures of the volutions ; umbilicus ample, and crenulated. Two and a half 

 inches broad. Inhabits the Indian ocean. 



45. Delphinula lacitiiata. — 1 he Fringed Delphinula. Plate Ixxiv. fig. 2"i. 

 Umbilicus large, surrounded by large vaulted scales. In spiral rows ; also 

 with strong waved spiral striae ; browni;h-red, variegated with « hite. Two 

 inches long. Inhabits the Indian seas. 



•16. Scalaria pretiosa. — Tlie Wentletrap, or Precious f^calaria. Plate 

 Ixxiv. fig. 20. Conical, smooth, cream-yellow; volutions deeply divided; 



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