TROPHON. 447 



Introduced by Pulteney, as from Weymouth. As some doubts 

 exist about the identity of the American and Oriental specimens, it 

 may be as ivell to observe, that the Jamaica form is the shell intend- 

 ed by our British writers. 



Pyrula carica, Graelin. 



Knorr, Delices des Yeux, pt. G, pi. 27, f. 1. — Martini, Concli. 



Cab. vol. iii. pi. G7, f. 744 ; pi. 69, f. 16G. 

 Murex carica, Gmelin, Syst, Nat. p. 3545. — Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 86, f. 26. 



— DiLLw. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 722. 

 Pyrula „ Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. ix. p. 505. — Fleming, Brit. 



Anim. p. 347. — Thompson, Report Brit. Assoc. 1843, p. 257. 



— Brit. Marine Conch, p. 208. — Desh. Encyl. Meth. Vers, 



vol. iii. p. 866. — Kiener, Coq. Viv. Pj^rula, pi. 3,f. 1. — Gould, 



Invert. Massach. p. 296. — Dekay, New York Moll. p. 141, 



pi. 9, f. 192, 193. 

 „ Ariiana, Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. iv. pi. 5, f. 16. 



From the southern coast of the United States ; introduced into 

 our Fauna as Irish by Turton, who ivas deceived by the party 

 from whom he procured it. 



Cassis. 



Bttccinmn deciissatum, Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. pi. 79, bottom figures. 



„ hilineatuvi (not of Gmelin, from List. Hist. Conch, pi. 998, f. 63, 

 only). Rack. Dorset Catalog, pi. 17, f. 8 (copied from 

 Penn.). 



A young exotic Cassis, in all probability an immature stage of 

 the West Indian testiculus (/l iV??e?", Coq. Vivant. Cas. pi. 9,f. 17), 

 was introduced by Pennant as from Weymouth. Pulteney, tvho 

 added it to his Dorset list, on the authority of Pennant (as B. porca- 

 tum, Hist. Dorset, Appx. p. 41, copied as bilineatum by Montagu, 

 Test. Brit. p. 244; Maton and Rack. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. 

 p. 134 ; Rach. Dorset Catal. p. 44 ; Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 17; 

 Cassis bilineata, Brit. Mar. Conch, p. 211), ai)pears to have de- 

 scribed, as its adult state f" Miner lip rugose and granulate'" J, a 

 distinct species, possibly the recurvirostrum of Reeve's •' Iconica." 



