Note 28 — CONCHOLOGY. PLATE XXXVI. NERITA POLITA. Var. PINK-BANDED VARIETY OF THE THICK POLISHED NERIT. Univalve.

Linnæus describes the animal of the Nerita as a limax, the body of which is oblong, with a fleshy shield above, and a longitudinal flat disk beneath: aperture on the right side within the shield: feelers, four, placed above the mouth: eyes, two, and situated one at the tip of each of the larger feelers. This character does not exactly accord with the animal of the Nerita, for in this tribe, instead of the eyes being situated upon the apex of the longer feelers, they stand each upon a kind of papilla, situated at the outer base of the longer feelers. And besides this, it differs in some less material peculiarities.