FAMILY TURBINID^E — MARGARITA. 109 



Margarita multilineata. 



PLATE VI. FIG. 108. 



(STATE COLLECTION.) 



Description. Shell small, pyramidal. "Whorls four, convex, obtusely carinate : suture 

 impressed ; spire elevated ; whorls with minute revolving striae, and three to four revolving 

 ribs ; aperture suborbicular ; umbilicus entirely concealed by the reflection of the lip, but its 

 place marked by a slight depression. 



Color. Beautifully variegated by alternate yellowish white and brown or reddish brown 

 revolving lines ; lip with abbreviated red and white lines. 



Length, 0*3 ; of aperture, 0' 13. 



I am indebted to my excellent friend, Mr. Couthouy, for the specimens here described, 

 and which he considered to be new. He obtained them from the stomachs of codfishes on 

 the coast. 



(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 



M. obscura, Couthouy. (Gould, Op. cit. fig. 161.) Depressed conical, solid : spire obscure, reddish 

 . brown, base ash-colored ; whorls angulated by two or three revolving ridges ; lines of growth 



coarse; aperture circular; pearly within. Length, 0*2; diameter, 0-3. Stomachs of fishes. 



Massachusetts. 

 M. argentata. (Gould, Op. cit. p. 256, fig. 164.) Shell very minute, depressed-conical, covered 



with microscopic revolving lines ; umbilicus moderately large. Color, pearly white ; iridescent 



within. Length, 0-1. Stomachs of fishes. Massachusetts. 



