DESCRIPTION. 
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usually very broad and deeply perforated, but in 
this variety nearly closed, leaving but a very small 
hole visible ; columellar lip white and polished. 
Inhabits India and China. 
Fig. 7. B. reticulatum,’ 
Shell ovate, transversely striate, and longitudi- 
nally ribbed; aperture toothed. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 966. Fig. 21. 
Specimen brownish white inclining to cinereous, 
with a dark reddish brown line round the upper 
part of the whorls ; lips polished, white. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, English, and .^thi- 
opie Seas. 
Fig. 8. B. strigilatum. 
Shell tapering ; whorls bifid, obliquely striate. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 845. Fig. 73. 
Specimen dirty white, with pale reddish brown 
irregular marks ; longitudinal striae composed of 
fine impressed dots. 
Inhabits Asia. 
