4 i6 WORMS. TESTACEA. 77. Strombus. 



Months Whorls of the fpirc bifid ; the upper-one grooved,- the 

 lower-one moniliform. 

 la-habits -Mart. z.p. 550: fubulase yellowifli -white. 



Ciitgulatum Shell with 3 elevated belts grooved above and beneath. 

 Inhabits Iceland. Mant* z.p. 550. fize of a cherry. 

 Shell ovate cinereous traniverfely ftriate ; the belts fmooth, 3 on 

 the belly and 2 on the fpire : ivhorls flattiih above : aperture 

 obovate : pillar flattiih 



Geminum. Whorls of the fpire bifid, the lower-one fwbitriate, the upper- 

 one more protuberant. 

 Inhabits Mant. 2. p. 550. White Tubulate. 



*Obtufulum Shell white glofly femipellucid: fpire with 5 whorls: aper- 

 ture oval. 

 Found at Fa<verjbam, Adams microjc. p. 639. tab. 14. fig 26, 



77. STROMBUS. Animal- B. Limax: Jhell 

 univalve fpiral: aperture much dilated; 

 the lip expanding and produced into a 

 groove leaning to the left. 



Thefe (hells, in their younger itate, want the lip, and have a thin 

 turbinate appearance: many of them have therefore for this 

 reafon, been miftaken by authors, and referred to a Genus to 

 which they do not belong. 



A. Lip projecting into linear diviftens or claws, 



p u r us% Shell tapering fmooth, with a fubulate beak and toothed 



lip. 

 Lister tab. 854. Seba muf. 3. tab. *fi*fig. 103.' 

 Knorr Vergn. 5. tab. 6. fig. I, u'jifi I. 

 Martini conch. 4, tab. 1 $*-fig. 1 496, 1 497. 

 Spengler felt . Conch, tab. 3. B. 



Chemn. Naturf. a. tab. &* fig* 2. Schrcet. Journ. 5. /. I. f. 2, 

 2. Bonan* recr. and. Muf Kirch. 3. fig. 12 f. 

 Lister tab. 916. Argen<v. conch, tab. 10. D, 

 Klein otlr. tab. 4. fig. 77. Seba muf. 3, /. 56./. 2. 

 Martini conch. 4. tab. 15c). fig. 1500. 

 Chemn. conch. 4. p. 344, njign, 41. 



< Inhabits 



