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CASSIS, ZLamarcke. 
Gen. Cuar. Shell univalve, ventricose, gibbous ; 
aperture longitudinal subdentated, terminating 
ina short reflected canal. Columella plicated 
on the lower part, lip flattened and forming a 
ridge on the body of the shell. 
CASSIS carinata. 
TAB VI.—Three upper figures. 
Spec. Cuar. Shell pyriform; spire short; volutions 
depressed, angular, with many longitudinal 
strie,and three nodose ridges; beak recurved. 
Syn. Buccinum nodosum, Soland. and Brand. 
Hantoniens. 
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Sprre short; rather acute; volutions six, angular, longi- 
tudinally striated, striz rising, alternately large and small; 
mostly decussated with the strie of growth. Three rows of 
prominences on the more gibbous part of the shell, the one 
at the edge of the depression most prominent, the other two 
concealed by each succeeding volution. Mouth oblong, a 
little contracted at the top by one or two tooth-like projec- 
tions within the right lip, and two or three within the left 
lip ; right lip reflected, broad, concave, retaining the strie 
of the outside, joining the left lip at the top, which is 
also broad, plicated, and passes from the gibbous part of 
the shell over the umbilicus and the recurved beak. 
This seems to be the shell figured in Brander’s frontispiece. 
I received the specimens from Highgate, where several have 
been found in fine preservation. It is said to be found in 
