Journal of conchology . us distinct I Malacologische Untersuchungen, Sempeys Reisen, VII., iv., 3, page 209^ fiLIOT : NUDlfeRANCHS AND tECTlBRAKCHS FROM iNDO-PACIFtC. 311 bright orange spots. The part covered by the shell was of a darkerand somewhat bluish-green, bearing dull orange spots and also bandsand blotches of dull red bordered with white. One of the specimenshad a few dark violet spots here and there; in the other specimenthey were absent. As preserved the animals are much hardened and contracted, butnot withdrawn entirely into the shell, the margins of which are stillcovered with the
Journal of conchology . us distinct I Malacologische Untersuchungen, Sempeys Reisen, VII., iv., 3, page 209^ fiLIOT : NUDlfeRANCHS AND tECTlBRAKCHS FROM iNDO-PACIFtC. 311 bright orange spots. The part covered by the shell was of a darkerand somewhat bluish-green, bearing dull orange spots and also bandsand blotches of dull red bordered with white. One of the specimenshad a few dark violet spots here and there; in the other specimenthey were absent. As preserved the animals are much hardened and contracted, butnot withdrawn entirely into the shell, the margins of which are stillcovered with the various flaps of the body. Most of the flesh is quitehard and deep dark brown in colour; only the liver is soft andgreenish. The shell is white, fragile, inconspicuously striated, andcovered with a yellowish periostracum. It is shaped much as inPeases figure (as reproduced in Pilsbrys Manual) but is slightlynarrower in proportion to its length. The rhinophores, gill, etc.,appear to have dried up and could not be del. Text Fig. s- Two median teeth of Haininma lateral tooth of Ha-minoea sintzllijita. The labial armature is much as in ff. natalensis, and consists ofslightly bent rods ; they are hooked at the tip, and slightly radula consists of 35 and 32 rows in the two specimens. In onethere are from eight to ten teeth on each side of the rhachidian tooth;in the other the number of laterals was not found to exceed eight. Therhachidian tooth is broad with three cusps, which vary somewhat inshape, and have a sort of hood at the top, but have not rounded out-lines and are thin or pointed. The laterals are hamate. The shaft isat first very erect, and then bends rather suddenly backwards.(Text Fig. 5). The first lateral is broader than the rest, and its hookis straight or slightly inclined away from the rhachis, whereas thehooks of the others are inclined towards the rhachis. This differenceof direction gives the middle of the radula a confuse
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