490 VAGI^ULID^E. 



orifice is situate below the middle of the total length of the 

 body, whereas in its ally this is exactly in the middle ; (4) the 

 foot terminates posteriorly in a blackish point, while numerous 

 specimens of the allied form have the foot entirely of one colour. 



480. Vaginulus andersonianus, Tapparone Canefri. 



Vaginnla andersoniana, Tapparone Canefri, Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Geneva, ser. 2, vii, 1889, p. 338, pi. 7, figs. 6, 7. 

 Veronicella andersoniana, Cockerell, The Conchologist, ii, 1893, 



p. 193. 



Fig. 159. Vaginulus andersonianus. f. 

 (Copied from Ann. Mus. Civ. G-enova.) 



Original description : " V. corpore convexiusculo, oblongo, 

 antice posticeque vix attenuate, marginibus lateralibus fere 

 parallelis. Pallium superne minutissime et creberrime granulato- 

 corrugatum, rnaculis confluentibus parvis parum distinctis, sub- 

 nigrescentibus, in seriebus duabus lateralibus ad margines pro- 

 pinquioribus dispositis depictum, linea in medio marginibusque 

 pallidioribus ; inferne pallidum, unicolor. Pes pallidus, valde 



