PLATE LXXI. 



TURBO LINEAIUS. 



STREAKED. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax, Univalve, spiral, or of a taper form. Aperture 

 somewhat compressed, orbicular, entire, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Somewhat conic. Ash colour variegated with fine streaks and 

 irregular marks of black ; a rude tooth at the top of the pillar. 



Turbo lineatus : trochiformis cinereus lineis aut lituris nigrls 

 insigniius, columella subdentata. Da Cojia Br, 

 Conch, p. 100. sp. ^Q. tab. 6. fig. 7. 



We believe this species is rather an uncommon, or at least local 

 kind onthe British shores, though Da Costa says it is found on the 

 coasts of Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Pwllhely in Caernar- 

 vonshire, and in plenty on the coasts of Norfolk. The collection 

 of that author contains but a single specimen, it is a worn Shell and 

 indifferently expressed by the figure above cjuoted. The most cha- 

 racteristic Shells of this rpecles we have seen, we found on the rocky 



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