VITRINA.—Ptate III. 
emersd, anfractibus subventricosis, subtilissimé decus- Species 20. (Mus. Cuming.) 
: | VirRINA SrameEnsis. Vitr. testé depresse semiglobosd. 
Cumine’s Virrtna. Shell globose, but little depressed, Raptr s pRer ASS } fs I d 
ies : ee : tenui, virescente-olivaced, spird parum emersd, anfrac- 
whitish horny, semitransparent, shining, encircled 
satin striatis ; aperturd lunari-rotundata. | 
| tibus ad suturas impressis, deinde declivi-convexis, ad 
above the periphery by a conspicuous red line, spire Wess : Sh LEA : é 
convex, but little emerged, whorls rather ventricose penipheriam motundans 5 aperigrd olligys lamariovard 
ef) 3D ? CA a > 
very finely decussately striated; aperture lunar- 
rounded. 
Beck, Pfeiffer, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 104. 
Hab. \sland of Bohol, Phiippines; Cuming. 
| Tue Stam Virrina. Shell depressly semiglobose, thin, 
greenish-olive, spire but little emerged, whorls im- 
pressed at the suture, then slopingly convex, rounded 
at the periphery; aperture obliquely lunar-ovate. 
| Harves, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1855, vol. vi. 
An interesting species of semitransparent pearly-white p. 158. 
substance, encircled by a conspicuous red line, which in } as. Siam. 
‘ly whorls falls in the pl f the suture. 
They early mBOrls Fans uae, acegcrune cule A rather dull shell, belonging to the type in which the 
— — periphery of the whorls slopes towards the base im an cb- 
tusely-rounded angle. 
