344 NERITA. NERITE. Class VI. 



GENUS XXIX. NERITA. NERITE. 



Animal, a Slug. 



Shell gibbous, flattish at bottom. 



Aperture semi-orbicular. 



1. glau- Lin. Syst. J251. No. 716. Faun. Suec. No. 2197. 



C * N /V Gw?. Lin. 3671. -Lira. TV. viii. 224. 



List. Angl. tab. iii. fig. 10. itfon/. Jert. Br. 469. 



N. with five spires, umbilicated; of a livid 

 color; the spires marked with short brown 

 stripes ; but it varies in colors. Tab. xc.^/%" 1. 



2. canrena. Gm. Lin. 36Gg. Mont. Test. Br. Sup. 148. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 223- 



* N. with an umbilicated smooth shell ; spire 

 somewhat mucronated, with a gibbous bifid 

 umbilicus. Inhabits the sea. 



