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three inches, diameter about two or three lines; colour 

 diaphanous. 



Inhabits the shores of the island of Barbadoes, in the 

 hollows formed in madrepore rocks. 



10. A. soUfera. Tentacula very long, unequal, pointed; 

 pressed together in five or six rows, around a straight 

 disc, these tentacula are ornamented with white, semispiral 

 spots, terminated in a point at the end. 



Body very much elongated, cylindric, very contractile, 

 fleshy, marked with longitudinal striae, of a reddish colour; 

 mouth large, plaited, ornamented w^ith two yellow bands, 

 placed opposite to each other, but not surrounding it, its 

 circumference is white; tentacula very transparent, those 

 of the centre longer than those of the margin. 



Indabits Guadaloupe, in old shells, particularly in 

 those of the Turbo vesicolor? The body^ ^vllen dilated, is 

 about nine or ten lines in diameter, and about four inches 

 in length. 



11. A. granulifera. Body covered with verrucose 

 tubercles; four rows of tentacula^ equal, narrow and point- 

 ed; border of the margin furnished with tubercles, which 

 are surmounted with small white pedunculated warts. 



Body equal, cylindric, contractile, of a red colour, 

 with longitudinal bands of a pale red; tentacula smooth, 

 the third part of the length of the body, of a violet brown, 

 annulated with white, and with white roundish spots, which 

 have sometimes a white spot in their centre; the margin 

 is bordered with white tubercles, in the form of a festoon, 

 the base of these tubercles black; diameter of specimen 

 described one inch, length two inches. 



Inhabits the rocks at Martinico. 



