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bartered with the natives at the rate of four for a dollar or one 
shilling each. I am told it is indifferent to the natives if the 
shells are old or rather damaged, as they use the chambered 
portions for ornament, rubbing them down to suit the various 
purposes to which they apply them. They also make armlets 
and other ornaments from the shell. <A vessel arrived at Sydney 
from New Caledonia with several tons of these shells, which were 
disposed of as an article of trade to the Navigator and Friendly 
Islands ; they were sold at Sydney at about 14d. each. 
I have seen a very elegant fillet formed of these shells (of 
very small size), brought from the Samoan Islands, the brilliancy 
of which was that of the most highly burnished silver. They 
are used by the natives in war, and are highly valued; this one 
costing twenty dollars. The shells are fixed to a small midrib 
of cocoanut leaf, which supports them on a worked band of 
sinnet ; upon this, under the row of seventeen shells, small pieces 
of the same pearly shell were placed to add to the ornamental 
effect. The length of the band was 12 inches (not including the 
tying strings) and the depth 3 inches.—Dr. GrorGE BENNETT, 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 226, 1859. 
In India elegant drinking cups are made of Nautilus Pompilius, 
the exterior coating being relieved by carving on the inner pearly 
lamina ; or it is Sometimes grotesquely painted. Cameo carving 
on the shell of the Nautilus is extensively practiced in England 
and other countries, and shells thus prepared are highly valued 
as ornaments. 
ATURIA, Bronn, 1838. (Megasiphonia, d’Orb., 1847.) Sutures of 
septa with a deep lateral lobe ; siphuncle on the concave or inner 
side of the shell, large, continuous, like a succession of funnels. 
Distr.—6 sp. Eocene, Miocene ; N. America, Europe, India. A 
ziezac, Sowb. (xxxi, 14, 16). 
piscires, M’Coy, 1825. Whorls all exposed; last chamber 
sometimes produced. Distr. sp. L. Silurian, Carb. 
TEMNOCHEILUS, M’Coy, 1844. (Endolobus, Meek and Worthen, 
1866.) Shell carinated, with an open, conical umbilicus. Distr. 
—5 sp. Carb. limestone WN. biangulatus, Sowb. (xxxi, 15). 
TREMATODISOUS, Meek and Worthen, 1861. Like Temnocheilus, 
but outer side of whorls with revolving angles and sulci, and 
frequently, revolving striw. Distr.— Carboniferous ; Europe, 
America. N. trisulcatus, Meek and Worthen (xxxi, 17, 18). 
Subcarboniferous; Rockford, Ind. 
cimomiaA, Conrad, 1866. Septa sinuous, double waved or 
sigmoid, numerous; siphon small, central. N. Burton, Galeotti. 
Lower Eocene. 
HERCOGLOSSA, Conrad,1866. (Aganides, Montf.?) Septa angular 
and linguiform; apex of the angle or tongue-shaped lobe not 
contiguous with the adjacent septum ; siphon large or moderate, 
