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perfect, the shell is covered with a pilose yellowish or brownish 

 epidermis, and presents the form of a cone, tapering to a line 

 point, which is curved back so as to form two volutions, some- 

 times inclining to one side. It is rather thin, divergently 

 striato-sulcate, with some concentric rugie ; the exterior red- 

 dish-white or pink; the inside highly glossed, and reddish, or 

 yellowish, or white. Diameter about an inch, height three- 

 fourths. Another individual, found at Aberdeen, in February, 

 1842, by Mr. Alex. Beaton. 



Patella Ungarica. Linn, Syst Nal. i. 12-39. — Patella Hungaric a. 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 143. Pl.^yO. f. 1 47.— l^atella Ungarica. 31ont. 

 Test. Brit. 486. — Capulus Hungaricus. Flem. Brit. Anim. 3G3. — 

 Capulus Hungaricus. Lamk. Syst. 



2. Capulus militdris. Military-Bonnet Capulus. 



Shell conoidal, rather thick, decussated with longi- 

 tudinal and concentric strise, and covered with a thin 

 epidermis ; the apex elongated, very slender, recurved, 

 involute, inclined to the right, and extending beyond the 

 margin ; the aperture roundish, thin- edged, even. 

 Named from its resemblance to a pointed cap. 



A small individual, only a twelfth of an inch in diam-eter, 

 found by me among shell sand, from Ugie-mouth, sent by Mr. 

 Alexander Murray, in Deceml>er, 1842. It is of a conoidal 

 form, suddenly tapering to a long slender point, which is in- 

 volute and turned considerably to the right ; the surface reticu- 

 lated, white, glossy on the apex ; the inside also white. 



Patella militaris. T>iuii. Maut. 503. — Patella militaris. Pult. 

 Dorset. 51.— Patella militaris. Mont, Test. Brit. 488. PI. 13. 1". i\. 

 — Capulus militiiris. Flem. Brit. Anim. 3G4. 



3. Capulus anti(pidtus. Antiquated Capulus. 



Shell conical, rather thick, with strong annular im- 

 bricated rugae; the apex blunt, somewhat compressed, 

 rather nearer the posterior end ; the aperture nearly 

 circular, thin-edged, somewhat irregular. Anticpidtus^ 

 old-looking. 



A small individual, two-twelfths of an inch in height, and 

 nearly the same in the diameter of the aperture, was found by 

 me in a cavity among Serpuhe, on a dead shell of Fusus anti- 

 quus, sent from Baniii by Mr. John Clark, in the end of De- 

 cember, 1842. It was of a greyish-white colour, and contained 

 tbo anunal. From its singular appeyrauce, I had at first bus- 



