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PLATE XXVI. 



Turbo ScalariS: testa cancellataconica: anfractibusdistantibus. — 



Linn, Syst. Nat. 10 p, 764. n, 548. — Mus, Lud. 

 Ulr. 658. n. 35i.~^GmeL Linn, Syst, Nat. T, 1. 

 p. 6. 5603. n, 6g. 



Scalar! A PretioSA: testa conica, umbilicata inspiram laxam 



contorta, pallide fulva ; costis albis ; anfractibus 

 disjunctis, laevibus: ultimo ventricoso. — Lamarck 

 Anim, sans, verteh'. Q. p» S26. 1. 



Wentltrap ( scalaris ) mus, t. 49. Jig- A. — Argenville 



Conch, pL 11, Jig, V, — Gualt. tab. 10, Jig. % 7. 



The Wentletrap is one of those extraordinary productions of 

 the shell tribe that has been regarded with unabated admiration 

 among Conchologists from the days of Petiver and Rumpfius, the 

 earliest of the more recent race of Naturalists, down to the period in 

 which we live. And, although it does not at this time bear a price 

 so very great as that which it bore some years ago, it is yet consi- 

 dered as a shell of no mean value when it is large and in fine perfec- 

 tion: even those of a smaller size, when in good condition, are 

 esteemed of value, at least in some proportion to those more estimable 

 for their perfection. 



The rarity of this choice and very curious shell arises from 

 various causes. In the Chinese seas, which it chiefly inhabits, the 

 species is very rare ; it sometimes occurs upon the coasts of Coro- 

 mandel, but sparingly, and in the other seas upon the coasts of India 



