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242 MARINE SHELLS 



about six, rounded, transversely wrinkled ; spire as 

 long as the aperture ; suture deeply impressed. 



Length two-fifths. Width more than three-tenths. 



Inhabits Maine. 



Cabinets of Messrs. Stone, Hyde and Say. 



We are indebted for this shell to Mr. Aaron Stone. 

 It is commonly invested with a dirty greenish- white 

 pigment, beneath which it is sometimes reticulated 

 with abbreviated yellowish lines, on a brown or 

 dusky ground. 



SCALARIA, Lam. 



Species. 



1. S. Wineata. Shell brownish, elongated, with 

 about seven volutions ; costa robust, obtuse, little 

 elevated, and from seventeen to nineteen on the body 

 whirl ; body whirl with generally a blackish, more or 

 less dilated line, which is nearly concealed on the 

 volutions of the spire by the suture ; margin of the 

 mouth robust, white, more dilated at the columella 

 base. 



Length about half an inch. 



Inhabits the southern coast. 



Cabinet of the Academy and Philadelphia Mu- 

 seum. 



Very much resembles Turbo clathratulus of Mon- 

 tague, which is figured by Maton and Rackett as a 

 variety of T. Clathrus, (Trans. Lin. Soc. Lond. 

 vol. 8. pi. 5. fig. 1.) but the lip is more robust, and 



