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darker radiating zones ; interior bluish white, pearly ; hinge with 

 eighteen teeth on the posterior, and twenty-two teeth on the anterior 

 side of the beaks. Length two inches, height one inch, breadth 

 one half. 



It inhabits from Long Island to Newfoundland fine, soft mud at 

 a depth of from two to ten fathoms. They are very abundant and 

 of large size at Portland, Me., but are much smaller in Rhode 

 Island. The only place where I have been able to dredge them in 

 Narragansett Bay is ofTRumstick, at the mouth of Warren River 

 in company with Nucula proxima, Say. 



{To be continued^) 



GENERAL NOTES. 



James C. Cox, M. D., the well-known Australian Conchologist, 

 has recently published descriptions and figures of Ancylus Smithi 

 and CyprcBa Irvineance, both from Australia. The latter is said to 

 group with CyprcBd stolida, brevidentata and coffea. (Proc. Linn 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, iv, p, 660, plate xix.) 



A fine specimen of the rare Conus gloria-marts (of w'hich only about 

 a dozen are known) has been secured by Mr. Hermann Rolle (whose 

 advertisement will be seen in this number.) The specimen is valued 

 by him at S500. 



Mr. E. A. Smith of the British Museum has published a very ac- 

 ceptable list of the marine mollusks of the Island of St. Helena in 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London for 1890. Many new species are described. 

 An unexpectedly large number of West Indian types appear. 



Cypk.ea spadicea. I noticed that in the July Nautilus Miss 

 Ida Shepard tells of finding Cyprcea spadicea at Longbeach. It 

 has been found here (Santa Barbara) alive, and dead shells are not 

 rare. This is some hundred miles further north than her locality. 

 I have thought that Point Concepcion forty miles above, might 

 be its northern limit, but have no data to prove it. The one cap- 

 tured here, lived two or three days in a bowl of sea water, giving 

 us an opportunity to .study its beauties. — Sarah E. Boyce, Santa 

 Barbara, Cal. 



