1825.] ^ew Scientific Books, 317 



oiSerpula, calling liS, cornucopia, 2ind Mr. Dillwyn used the 

 latter name, but confounded it with Serpuia helicina of the 

 Portland cabinet, which is Magilus aritiqnm of Lamarck, and 

 does, as Mr. Humphreys describes, live in stones and corals ; 

 and Mr. Dillwyn, arguing from this fact, observes, that '* the 

 habitat which Mr. H. has given precludes the possibiUty of its 

 beino' a distorted land shell." Ferussac, in his Synopsis of the 

 Species of Snails, does not refer to these synonima, nor take any 

 notice of the monstrosity. 



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