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RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



At my request Mr. J. Ritchie, Jr., has placed in my hands for Sale, 



a selection from his 



Duplicat e Cypraeas, 



NUMBERING ABOUT 75 SPECIES AND 200 SPECIMENS. 



This Collection includes all of the more common species, and many of the rarer ones, notably 



C. aurantium, umbilicata, thersites, capensis, punctata, scottii, 

 nigropunctata, sulcidentata, angustata, etc. 



The Shells are all numbered to correspond with their labels, and the niming has been carefully 

 done by Mr. Ritchie himself, accoiding to the best authorities. 



^PHICK FIFTV B(Dluh.PiHS.~> 



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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION. 



No. 1 



Specimens. 



punctata Linn 2 



cervinetta Kieu 2 



exaulhema Liuu 1 



aselhis Linn 5 



Isabella Linn 4 



errones Linn 2 



caput-serpentis Linn 5 



Lamarkii Gray 2 



erosa Linn '^ 



argus Linn 2 



talpa Linn 3 



clandestina Linn 4 



albuginosa Gray 2 



quadrimaculata Gray 1 



irrorata Sol o 



comptoni Gray 1 



algoeusis Gray 1 



felina Gmel 2 



pyrum Gniel 2 



vitellus Linn 4 



polita Roberts. 1 



hirundo Linu 2 



neglecta Sow 3 



eburnea Barn 1 



cribraria Linn 2 



miliaris Gmel 2 



ursellus Gmel 4 



avxrautium Mart 1 



ventriculus Lam 2 



areuosa Gray 3 



ziczac Linu 2 



ocellata Linn 4 



caurica Linn 5 



mus Linn 2 



carneola Linn 5 



pulchella Sw 2 



gangrenosa Dillw 4 



scurra Cliemu o 



picta Gray 1 



aunulus Linn 5 



Specimens- . 



No. 55, obvellata Linu 5 



" 56, moueta Liun 5 



" 57, spurca Linn 3 



" 58, mauritiana Linu 3 



" 60, ciuereaGmel 3 



" 62, arabicula Lam. . . - •. 2 



" 65, tabescens Sol • 1 



" 67, stercoraria Ijiiiu. var. rattus, Linu 2 



" (ivi, pautherina Sol 2 



" 71, diluculum Reeve 5 



" 73, testudinaria Linn 1 



" 74, poraria I.-inn 4 



" 75, capensis Gray •• 1 



" 76, lynx Linu (> 



" 77, crueutataGmel .■ 2 



" 77a, var. variolaria 2 



" 78, scottii Brod 1 



" 80, onyx Liun •• 2 



" 84, puuctulata Gray 2 



" 86, helvola Linu 5 



" 88, lurida Linu 2 



" 89, thersites Gray 1 



" ViO, s^werby i Kien 2 



" 95, tardus Lam 2 



'* 96, umbilicata Sow 1 



" 97, reticulata Mart 2 



" 98, " var. bistrio Gm 1 



" 99, arabica Liuu ;. 3 



" 101, " var. intermedia Kien 3 



" 104, interrupta Gray 3 



" 105, tigris Liun 3 



" 108, fimbriata Gmel 3 



" 109, stolida Linn 1 



" 111, sulcidentata Gray 1 



" 113, nigropunctata Gray 1 



" 114, esoutropia Duel 1 



" 119, melanostoma Leatb 1 



" 128, mappa Linu 1 



" 130, angustata Gmel 1 



Address J. M. SOUTHWICK, Providence, R. I. 



J. A. & II. A. Reid, Pkintehs, Pj;ovidence, R. I. 



