6 GENUS TORNATELLA. 
Length 4} lines. Width 13 lines. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean. 
This pretty little species, which is quite common, is very re- 
markable for its diminutiveness; its transparent white color, 
and its extremely delicate strie; its form approaches that of 
several BuLLA. 
5. TORNATELLA NITIDULA, Lam. The Shining Tornatella. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) Encyclop., pl. 452, fig. 2, a, b. 
Pl. 1, fig. 5. 
Testa crassd, ovato-oblongd, albo-rosed, nitiduld; spird brevi, acuta ; 
columella biplicata. 
Shell thick, ovate, oblong, smooth, of a rosy white color, 
transverse strie varying in number at the base of the lowest 
whirl ; spire short, pointed at its summit, composed of six or 
seven very approximate whirls; aperture oblong, narrow, a 
little effuse at its base; right lip thickened upon its interior, 
smooth and sharp throughout its whole extent. Two folds 
upon the columella, which is thickened; of these two, the 
lower fold is the larger, and is sub-quadrangular, the upper, 
which is much sjonlla is separated from the HUNG, by a 
semicircular, very deep groove. 
Length 9 lines. Width 5 lines. 
Inhabits the seas of the Isle of France, and of New Holland. 
This species is very common. It is distinguished from others 
by its short and very slender spire, and by the magnitude of its 
last fold. 
