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is of a light horn-colour, and the bands fahit ; others are 

 quite plain, and might be miftaken {or Turbo canalis, was 

 it not for the mouth of that fliell being fub-angulated, and 

 the pillar lip with a much larger canal, and umbilicus. 

 It alfo bears fome refemblance to Turbo quadrifafciatus, 

 but is vaflly larger, not near fo thick and flrong, and is 

 deflitute of the fub-carinatcd edge at the bafe. 



We difcovered this fliell alive in Salcomb bay, at low 

 water-mark, adhering to algce ; fome are of a greenifh 

 colour between the bands ; and when examined under a 

 magnifying glafs, appear in fome lights to be finely reti- 

 culated. 



15. 

 AuRicuLARis. T. with a conic, fmooth, fub-pellucid, light horn-co- 

 loured fliell : volutions five, much rounded, and deeply 

 divided by the feparating line : apex moderately pointed, 

 and ufually of a darker colour : aperture fub-oval, or 

 rather ear-fliaped ; outer lip thin ; inner lip much re- 

 flexed upon the body, forming an angle about the mid- 

 dle, behind which is a narrow umbilicus. Length three- 

 eighths of an inch ; breadth not quite tv*'o-eighths. 



This fomewhat refembles Helix fojpiria, but befides 

 being a marine fliell, is eflentially' different in the mouth. 

 Is a ' are fpecies, never having found it any where but on 

 the fliore near Southampton, and there not common. 



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