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1. This is an egg mass of the Fascio- 

 laria gigantea. They are usually about 

 3" in diameter and 6" or more long, made 

 up of a large number of thin capsules 

 which contain the embryos. When the 

 capsules are about to hatch, they burst 

 open at the top and the young emerge 

 by the thousands most of which are usu- 

 ally gobbled up by the swarms of fish. 



1.00 



2. Fasciolaria gigantea, Kien. Band 

 Shell or Horse Conch. Gulf of Mexico. 

 One of the two largest marine univalve 

 forms in the world. The other species of 

 a different genus will be mentioned in 

 the foreign section of this book. This 

 species is truly a gigantic shell. Ordinary 

 specimens run 12" and are more com- 

 mon and less expensive than the larger 

 shells which seem to be becoming rare. 



Old fishermen tell me you have to go to 

 very deep water to find the really big 24" 

 specimens. It has a very thick, heavy 

 periostracum which is often removed to 

 show the true color of the shell. When 

 young, the color varies from red to yel- 

 low, but these colors gradually fade to 

 white in old age. Specimens a foot long 

 when cleaned frequently show traces of 

 red and yellow. 10" 3.00 



12" 4.00 15" 5.00 



3. Fasciolaria princeps. Sow. Panama. 

 A handsome russet-red shell that attains 

 6 to 10" and possibly more. I am includ- 

 ing it here among the other East Coast 

 Marine as I suspect it is occasionally 

 found at Key West, but Johnson did not 

 include it in his splendid check list is- 

 sued in 1934. It has a fine heavy oper- 

 culum. 8" 4.00 



