TURBINELLA.—Ptare III. 
concinné angusté et creberrime vittatd, epidermide 
tenut luted indutd, intus eburned. 
FLAG TURBINELLA. Shell ovately fusiform, thick, 
solid: whorls concavely angulated round the upper 
part, slightly keeled and compressly tubercled at the 
angle, plaits of the columella two, rarely more, thin, 
rather obsolete ; aperture sculptured with ridges and 
warts ; white, narrowly and very closely filleted with 
brown, covered by a yellowish epidermis, interior 
ivory white. 
Krzner, Icon. coq. viv. p. 37. pl. 20. f. 2. 
Buccinum aplustre, Martyn. 
Murex aplustre, Chemnitz. 
Hab. Isle of Annaa (on the reefs) ; Cuming. 
It is to this species that the Monoceros cingulatum is 
so nearly allied in every character save the tooth, that 
M. Kiener was induced to place it here. 
THE 
Species 17. (Mus. Cuming.) 
TURBINELLA cINGULIFERA. Turd. testd ovato-fusiformi, 
transversim striata, spird turritd ; anfractibus superne 
declivibus, medio ventricosis, subcarinatis et Sortiter 
tuberculatis, deinde cingulo calloso notabili ad limbum 
in dente erecto desinente ; aperture fauce striatd ; 
castaneo-fusci, cingulo albo, intus albd. 
THE GIRDLED TuRBINELLA. Shell ovately fusiform, 
transversely striated, spire turreted; whorls slanting 
round the upper part, ventricose in the middle, slightly 
keeled and strongly tubercled, then encircled with a 
remarkable callous girdle ending at the lip in an erect 
tooth; interior of the aperture striated; chesnut- 
brown, girdle white, interior white. 
Lamarck, Anim.sans vert. (Deshayes’ edit.) vol.ix. p. 384. 
Murex nassa (pars), Gmelin. 
' THE PRECIOUS STONE TURBINELLA. 
Fasciolaria cingulifera, Enc. Méth. 
Hab. Mouth of the Gambia, Africa. 
I think there are several reasons for retaining the name 
given to this species by Lamarck, in preference to that 
originally used by Gmelin ;—it is by far the more appro- 
priate title, there is another species with a name very 
similar, 7. nassatula, and under the head of Murex nassa, 
Gmelin included with it the 7. lewcozonalis. 
Species 18. (Mus. Cuming.) 
TURBINELLA SMARAGDULUS. Turb. testé globoso-ovatd, 
crassa, solidd, basi leviter recurvd, spird brevi ; anfrac- 
tibus convewis levibus aut obsolete creberrimé plani- 
liratis, liris angustis interstitis longitudinaliter stria- 
tis; castaneo-fuscd, lineis albis undique cingulaté, 
intus eburned. 
Shell globosely 
ovate, thick, solid, slightly recurved at the base, 
spire short; whorls convex, smooth or obsoletely 
very closely flatly ridged, ridges narrow, interstices 
longitudinally striated; chesnut brown, encircled 
throughout with white lines, interior ivory white. 
Desuayes, Anim. sans vert. p. 383 note. 
Buccinum smaragdulus, Linneus. 
Turbinella rustica, Lamarck. 
Lagena crassa, Schumacher. 
Hab. Island of Mindanao, Philippines (under stones at 
low water); Cuming. 
To Mr. Dillwyn and M. Deshayes are we alike indebted 
for the restoration of the Linnean name to this well- 
known species; an almost solitary instance of a Turbinella 
without any indication of nodules or tubercles. 
