ERATO LvEVIS. 511 



Genus ERATO, Risso, 1826. 



Erato laBvis (Donovan). Plate XLV, fig. 1. 



1799. Valuta Levis, Donovau, Brit. Shells, vol. v, pi. clxv. 



180.3. Cijprxa voluta, Montagu, Test. Brit., pt. i, p. 203, pi. vi, fig. 7. 



1842—48. Erato hvvis, S. V. Wood, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [IJ, vol. ix,p. 544, 1842 ; Mou. Crag Moll., 



pt. i, p. 18, pi. ii, fig. 10, 1848. 

 1844. Marginella laevis, Pbilippi, Euum. Moll. Sic, vol. ii, p. 197. 



1853. Marginella Levis, Forbes and Hauley, Brit. Moll., vol. iii, p. 502, pi. cxiv, b, figs. 4, 5. 

 1856. Erato hevis, Homes, Foss. Moll. Tert. Wieu, vol. i, p. 79, pi. viii, fig. 16. 

 1859. Erato hevis, G B. Sowerby, 111. lud. Brit. Shells, pi. xix, fig. 27. 

 1864. Erato hevis, S. P. Woodward in White's Hist, of Norfolk, cd. 3, p. 117. 

 1867 — 71. Marginella hevis, Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. iv, p. 400, pi. vii, fig. 3, 1867 ; vol. v, pi. xcii, 



fig. 1, 1869; in Prestwich, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxvii, pp. 143, 488, 1871. 

 1870 — 71. Marginella hevis, A. Bell, Journ. de Conch., vol. xviii, p. 349, no. 307, 1870; Erato laevis, 



Geol. Mag., vol. viii, p. 454, 1871. 

 1871. Eraio hevis, A. and R. Bell, Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ii, pp. 203, 209, 213. 

 1873—75. Erato hevis, Seguenza, Boll. R. Com. Geol. Ital., vol. iv, p. 294, no. 58, 1873 ; vol. v,p. 274, 



no. 25, 1874; vol. vi, p. 153, no. 85, 1875. 

 1874. Erato hevis. Van deu Broeck, Ann. Soc. Malac. Belg., vol. ix, p. 118. 

 1886. Erato hevis, Dollfus et Dautzenberg, Feuille des Jeunes Natur., vol. xvi, p. 105. 

 1890. Erato Ipevis, C. Reid, Plioc. Dep. Brit., p. 243. 

 1890. Erato Imvis, Carus, Prod. Faun. Medit., vol. ii, p. 372. 

 1890—4. Erato hevis, Sacco, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. ix, p. 191, no. 2177, 1890; Moll. Terr. Terz. 



Piem., pt. XV, p. 58, pi. iii, figs. 62—68, 1894. 

 1892. Erato hevis, Locard, Coq. mar. Cotes de France, p. 39, fig. 25. 

 1898. Erato hevis, Bucquoy, Dautzenberg et Dollfus, Moll. mar. Rouss., vol. ii, p. 794. 



1902. Erato Ixtis, Conch. Soc. List., Journ. of Conch., vol. x, p. 22, no. 379. 



1903. Erato Isevis, Cossmann, Ess. Palaeoconch. compar., vol. v, p. 183, pi. viii, figs. 10, 11. 

 1906. Erato lievis, Sykes, Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. vii, p. 333. 



Specific Characters. — Small, pyriform, inflated above, base attenuated, solid, 

 without sculpture ; whorls 5 or G, the last occupying nearly the whole of the shell; 

 spire minute, very short, projecting ; suture indistinct ; mouth narrow, elongate, 

 nearly equal in width, length co-extensive with that of the body- whorl; canal 

 wide and open ; outer lip thick and broad, forming a rim continued round the base, 

 inside closely notched with about 15 small teeth ; pillar flexuous, with 2 or 3 slight 

 plaits and a row of minute tubercles above. 



Dhiensions. — L. 10 mm. B. 7 mm. 



Distribution. — Recent : British coasts, local, Shetland to Guernsey. Brittany, 

 west Atlantic, Mediterranean, Adriatic, ^gean. 



Fossil : Coralline Crag : Sutton. Waltonian : Walton-on-Naze, 

 Little Oakley. Newbournian : Bentley, Waldringfield, Newbourn, Sutton, 

 Butleyan : Butley. Icenian : Bramerton. 



Miocene : Touraine, Vienna basin, Italy. 



