278 ATY-. 



LAPHANA Aradas. PI. 32, figs. 29, 30. 



Shell ovate, turgid, very shining, hyaline, smooth in the middle, 

 sculptured with about 10 flexuous, concentric stria? above and be- 

 low, becoming closer toward each end ; vertex subtruncate, umhili- 

 cate, thickened at the outer margin. Aperture coarctate in the 

 middle, patulous and angled above, canaliculate below ; columella 

 with one fold at base. Alt. nearly one-fifth, width one-tenth inch 



jEyean Sea to Italy. 



diapliann ARAD., Catal. Rag., etc., p. 40 (1840). PHIL., 

 Knum. Moll. Sicil. ii, p. 215. Weinkauffin diuphana MONTS., 

 Noiu. Gen. e Spec. p. 145. llulla turgidula FORBES, Rep. Aeg. In- 

 vert. p. 188, (1843). IMla semistrinta REQ., Coq. de Corse, p. 42 

 (1848). Scaphander gibbulus JEFFR., Ann. Mag. N. H. (2), xvii, 

 185(5, p. 188, pi. 2, f. 20, 21. SOWB M Conch. Icon, xviii, f. 8. 

 According to Monterosato it varies in being more or less swollen. 



A. I5LAINVILLIANA Recluz. PI. 43, fig. 16. 



Shell oblong, subcylindrical, umbilicated, shining, milk-white ; a 



little convex in the middle, very smooth, striated at the ends, the 



filial strise deeper, the others sensibly smoother. Aperture ob- 



Iciiir, wider at base ; columella obtusely one-toothed below. Alt. 10, 



diam. 5-] mill. (Reel). 



Coast of Provence and of Sicily (Reel.). 



Omlit triticea BLAINV., in Faune Francaise, ou Hist. Nat., G'n. 

 et Partic. des Anim. que se trouv. en France, Moll., p. 251, pi. 9 A, 

 f. 4 (good) ; not of Lam. nor Puyr. />//// bfainvilKana RKCI.IV., 

 Rev. Zoologique la Soc. Cuvierienne, 1843, p. 10. Cyfirhtm blain- 

 <" I {.'el., LOCARD, Coq. Mar. Fr., p. 27. C.jeffreysi LOCARD, 

 IV'Hlr., p. 75. 



The apex is umbilicated, the umbilicus being a millimetre in 

 width and rounded within ; the umbilicated end is a little more at- 

 u-tmated than the base of the shell. This species is a real Bulla 

 and not an Ovula, always of a beautiful whiteness, not red-orange 



The description of this shell in Faune Franraise is partly hypo- 



thetical, the author of that work being under the impression that 



hi- -hell was a dead specimen of a red Ovula, described and figured 



Payraudeau, K-'du/, has also iriven a very poor description 



-lated above;, but his citation of Blainville's figure as a good 



