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Tis all over brown with fome white Spots and Fafcie. The Colour 
is fomerimes blacker, fometimes more reddifh. 
I found thefe Shells plentifully on the Shores of the Ifland Fa- 
matca. 
XVIIL. Idem e flavo rubrum majus, clavicula muricata, non striatum. 
This differs chiefly from the former in being of a yellowifh red 
Colour. The Windings of the Clavicle are more muricated tho’ there 
are no Strée on the firft Winding as in the Precedent. 
I found it with the former. : 
XIX. Baccinum breviroftrum, labrofum, craffum, variegatum, unico or- 
dine clavatum. Lift. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 991. N° 52. An Bucetnum brevi- 
rostrum, labrofum, craffum, ex bino ordine muricatum, clavicula parum ex- 
erta. Ej. ib. N° 53 ? 
This Shell is very thick, ftrong and ponderous, near an Inch long, very 
near as broadand high. It hath a wide Mouth with an Operculum 
fitted to it, and.is all over of a dark. brown and white Colour in- 
termixed, the Clavicle is very fhort, and the: firft “Winding is: befet 
with extant Points; or muricated; and fometimes’ the fecond. There 
are in all about four of thefe fpiral Lines, '" -" D eB 3 SOLS 
I found it of feveral Magnitudes on the Sea Shores of Famaica, 
XX. Baccinum brevi roftro e nigro c candido variegatum, dentatum cy 
muricibus crebris obtufis obfitum. An buccinam brevirostram nodis valde 
eminentibus at obtafis diftinttum. List. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 956. N®. 
8.7? 
This feems to be twice as large every way as the former, and dif- 
fers from it not only in having blunt Apéces or extant round Points all over 
the Circumvolutions of the Clavicle, but alfo in having the fame 
on feveral extant Ridges upon the firft-Circumvolution- towards — its 
Mouth which hath Teeth towards the Columella. 
I found it on the Shores of Sasmaica, and have had it alfo from the 
Shores of Barbados and St. Chriftophers. 
XXI. Veficaria Marina, non ramofa, e veficulis infundibult forma mem- 
brana undulata extante coronstis, constans. Cat. fam. p. 7. Hift. Nat. Fam. 
Vol. 1. p» 64. Tab. 24. Fig. 3. Alcyonium veficarium coronatum Buccinis 
minimis repletum, Plum. Fil. Am. p.145. Tab. 168. Lit. O. 
I have nothing to add to what I have faid of this Subftance in the 
firft Volume of this Hiftory : 
Sif Cwar- 
