130 Mr. Jeffreys on British Mollmca. 



specimen of this very distinct species has heen in my cabinet for the 

 last twenty years, and was found at Tenby by my late friend, Mrs. 

 Richard Smith. Mr. Hanley considered it to be the young of Fusus 

 rostratus ; but, as Philippi justly remarks, his F. rudis differs from 

 that species in its much less slender form and far shorter spire. Its 

 nearest congener is Murex corallinus. 



Buccinum Humphreysianum, iii. 410. Mr. Barlee says that the 

 tentacula of the animal, instead of being flat and long (as in B. un- 

 datum), are peculiarly round and obtuse. 



Fusus, iii. 433. pi. ciii. f. 4, 5. The fragment of a Fusus, de- 

 scribed and figured as above, and which I examined in the cabinet of 

 Mr. M 'Andrew, clearly belongs to the variety carinatus of F. anti- 

 quus ; and Mr. M'Andrew is of the same opinion. 



Trophon scalariformis. Fusus scalariformis, Gould, In v. Mass. 

 p. 288. f. 203. Trophon clathratus, var. ?, B. M. iii. 438 (foot-note). 

 The large fragment mentioned by Forbes and Hanley (and which was 

 presented to me by the late Professor Macgillivray) has every ap- 

 pearance of being recent, and it still contains the remains of a hermit- 

 crab. In dredged sand from Belfast Bay I found a perfect, though 

 younger specimen, with T. clathratus, which is common there. The 

 two species are, I think, distinct, 



Triton cutaceus, iii. 446. Dr. Turton's collection, as well as the 

 British Museum, contains specimens (though in the latter they are 

 in a worn and imperfect state) from Padstow and Guernsey ; and 

 Mr. Lukis, sen. and Mr. Macculloch have found several from time to 

 time in the Channel Isles. But all doubt of the indigenousness of 

 this species may, I think, be considered as set at rest by mentioning 

 that Dr. Lukis and Mr. Barlee dredged, last autumn, off the Guernsey 

 coast, a half-grown and living individual. This I have seen, with 

 the operculum preserved; and I am quite satisfied (as a lawyer!) 

 with the proof of its being a British shell. I noticed specimens in 

 the collection of M. d'Orbigny (pere) at La Rochelle, in 1830, from 

 the Gulf of Gascony ; and it is rather a common Mediterranean 

 species. 



T. nodiferus. T. nodiferum, Lam. vii. 1/9. Three specimens of 

 this truly magnificent shell have been taken in the Channel Isles at 

 intervals, from 1825 to 1847 ; and two of them are now in the cele- 

 brated collection of Guernsey shells formed by Mr. Lukis, sen. I give 

 in his own words the following account of these captures : — 



" Three specimens have been dredged off the shores of Guernsey. 

 In the year 1825, August 25th, the largest was brought to me by one 

 of our island fishermen, named Charles Ozanne, of Paradis, in the 

 Vale parish. He had a few days previously dredged it alive, and, 

 in order to extract the fish, had boiled the shell. Some years after, 

 a second was dredged by another fisherman, and was also alive. This 

 was obtained in a living state by the late Admiral Sir Thomas Man- 

 sell. In the year 1847, a third specimen was brought to me alive, 

 and I kept it in sea-water for a fortnight. It was very active, and 

 repeatedly was found to have crawled out of the bucket on the floor." 



The largest specimen now measures nearly 9 finches in length, 



