SiMiLiiMus. Shell {lender, white, with eight or nine fpires fiirnifliecl 

 with fourteen ribs, or elevated Jlruc ; theie Hand ftraight in 

 the line of the fliell : apex pointed : bafe deftitute ofjiria- : 

 aperture fub-ovate. Length three eighths of an inch. 



This has much the habit of Turbo elegantijfunus, but is not 

 fo llender, the ribs are lefs numerous, and confequently more 

 diflant, the fulci or deprefllons being larger than the eleva- 

 tions. Thofe who have an opportunity of comparing thefe 

 two fliells, will alio obferve that the ribs in ekganti/Jimus do 

 not run ftraight, but oblique to the right, are not fo much 

 arched, and are larger than the interfiices. 



Difcovered by Mr. Laskey to inhabit the lliores of the 

 ifland of Jura. 



SzMiSTRiATus. Shell thick, conic, white, with five or fix flightly rounded 

 fpires, but well defined by the line of feparation ; apex rather 

 obtufe : the bafe of the fliell as far as the upper or interior 

 angle of the mouth, is finely llriated in a fpiral direction, 

 and the fame is obfervable on the upper and lower parts of 

 the other volutions ; in fome the /irice are obvioufly more 

 general by the aid of a lens, but in live fiiells which are co- 

 vered witli a brown epidermis, the middle of e ch fpire ufuully 

 appears plain : aperture fub-:-.^ ulated at the interior 



end; pillar lip thicken -H r -0. Length one 



eighth of m inch : hxt 



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