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have seen a specimen of a nearly allied species, kindly submitted 

 to our inspection, with other minute shells, by Mr. Barlee, which 

 has " much finer longitudinal ribs or strite," and on this account 

 agrees better with Montagu's description; our species having 

 the ribs scarcely finer than in his T. interstinctus, with which he 

 compares it. We leave the matter for further investigation. A 

 shell in the British Museum named " T. indistinctus, Mont.," ap- 

 pears to be a worn specimen of C. fulvocincta. 



3. C. UNicA, Mont. 



Turbo tmicus, Mont. Test. Brit. 299, t. 12, f 2. 

 In shell sand, rare. Tynemouth, Whitley, and Cheswick. — 

 J. A. 



4. C. NiTiDissiMA, Mont. 



Turbo nitidissimus, Mont. Test. Brit. 299, t. 12, f. ^. 

 We obtained a specimen of this exquisite little shell out of 

 sand from Cheswick, sent us by our friend. Dr. Johnston. — 

 Though always described as smooth, and even appearing so un- 

 der a common magnifier, on closer inspection with the micro- 

 scope, we find the vestiges of delicate spiral strise. The species 

 has never been obtained alive, but in that state we have no doubt 

 that it will be found to be distinctly striated. 



5. C. AcicuLA, Phil. 1 



Shell turreted, slender, cylindrico-subulate, tapering to a ra- 

 ther obtuse point, of a semi-transparent white, with eight smooth 

 whorls, rather flattish, but well defined by a deeply-impressed 

 suture; the first whorl is placed at right angles to the rest; the 

 last whorl is a good deal rounded at the base. Aperture about 

 one-fifth the length of the shell, ovate, scarcely angulated by the 

 projection of the body whorl ; outer lip thin; pillar lip nearly 

 straight, slightly arched outwards in the centre, and rounded 

 below; behind it is a slight impression, but no umbilicus. 

 Length scarcely If tenths; breadth about one-fourth the length. 

 Eulima acicula, Phil. Enum. Moll. Sic. ii. 135, t. 9, f. 6 ? 



This species come very near to the Eulimella gracilis, JefF. in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. xix. 311 [Eulima ajinis, Phil ?), but it is rather 

 smaller, flatter in the whorls, and the apex is not so much produ- 

 ced, in consequence of the first whorl being a little more sunk in 



