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rotundatis, supra planulatis, in medio cinguld bituberculatd, 

 inferne cingulis nodalosis ornatis ; aperturd rotunda; labio 

 purpureo tincto, labro intus Icevigato ; umbilico prof undo, callo 

 columellari subobtecto. 



Hab. ad Fretum Mosambicum. (Mus. Cuming.) 



tf. Modulus duplicatus, A. Adams. M. testd orbiculato-conicd, 

 umbilicatd, ccerulescenti,fusco variegatd, spirdprominuld, acuta; 

 anfractibus planulatis, transversim sulcatis, ad peripheriam 

 cingulis duabus tuberculorum compressorum ornatis, tuberculis 

 rufo-fusco maculatis, infimd fascia convexd, concentrice sulcata; 

 aperturd intus violascenti ; labro margine angulato, intus li- 

 rato ; umbilico mediocri. 



Hab. ? (Mus. Cuming.) 



7. Modulus obliquus, A. Adams. M. testd orbiculato-conicd, 

 perobliqud, albd, umbilicatd, spird depressd ; anfractibus sub- 

 planulatis, liris transversis, elevatis, supra radiatim nodoso- 

 plicatis, ultimo in medio angulato, carind prominuld instructo, 

 infra cingulis transversis elevatis numerosis ornato ; aperturd 

 rotunda ; columella roseo tinctd ; labro intus lirato, 



Hab. Mare Rub rum. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Eglisia Cumingii, A. Adams. E. testd turritd, solidd, albidd, 

 longitudinaliter fusco-fammulatd ; anfractibus rotundatis, cin- 

 gulis acutis, transversis {in anfractu ultimo sex), lineisque ele- 

 vatis, transversis, interpositis, ornatis, interstitiis longitudina- 

 liter tenuissime striatis, varicibus tenuibus, longitudinalibus, 

 incequidistantibus, instructis ; aperturd rotundatd, peristomate 

 continuo, labio incrassato, antich producto, calloso, et refiexo ; 

 labro simplici, acuto. 



Hab. Japonia. (Mus. Cuming.) 



The obscure longitudinal varices show the true position of this 

 genus to be between Turritella and Scalaria. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Description of some of the Objects which cause the Luminosity of 

 the Sea. By Charles William Peach, of Peterhead, N.B.* 



[With a Plate.] 



There is pleasure in knowing, even when far distant from a spot 

 where so many bright days of our existence have been spent, and 

 where so many valued friends reside, that institutions with which we 

 are connected are still in existence, and to feel that a link of that 

 chain which has so long held us together is still in our possession, 

 and that the time is fast approaching when those kindred spirits will 

 be assembled at one of their annual gatherings, to whom that link, 



* Communicated by the Author ; having been read at the last Annual 

 Meeting of the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1850. 



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