FAMILY TURBINIDA — MARGARITA. 109 
MarGarirta MULTILINEATA. 
PLATE VI. FIG. 108. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Description. Shell small, pyramidal. Whorls four, convex, obtusely carinate: suture 
impressed ; spire elevated ; whorls with minute revolving strie, and three to four revolving 
ribs ; aperture suborbicular ; umbilicus entirely concealed by the reflection of the lip, but its 
place marked by a slight depression. 
Color. Beautifully variegated by alternate yellowish white and brown or reddish brown 
revolving lines ; lip with abbreviated red and white lines. 
Length, 0°3; of aperture, 0°13. 
I am indebted to my excellent friend, Mr. Couthouy, for the specimens here described, 
and which he considered to be new. He obtained them from the stomachs of codfishes on 
the coast. 
(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 
M, obscura, Cournouy. (Govtp, Op. cit. fig. 161.) Depressed conical, solid: spire obscure, reddish 
brown, base ash-colored ; whorls angulated by two or three revolving ridges; lines of growth 
coarse; aperture circular; pearly within. Length, 0-2; diameter, 0°3. Stomachs of fishes. 
Massachusetts. 
M. argentata. (Govxp, Op. cit. p. 256, fig. 164.) Shell very minute, depressed-conical, covered 
with microscopic revolving lines; umbilicus moderately large. Color, pearly white; iridescent 
within. Length, 0*1. Stomachs of fishes. Massachusetts. 
