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EUOMPHALUS Colei. 

 TAB. DCXXl— ^g^. 1, 



Spec. Char. Volutions few^ rapidly increasing in 

 size, four-sided, their two outer sides largest ; 

 margin rather acute. 



A LARGE shell, concave both above and below ; the 

 aperture is trapezoidal. As I have only seen a cast of 

 the interior, I know not the characters of the outer sur- 

 face ; the substance appears to have been rather thick. 



Found in black Limestone in Johnstone Quarry, be- 

 tween Finglass-bridge and Glassnevin, near Dublin, by 

 Mr. J. Humphrey. 



I have applied the family name of the Earl of Ennis- 

 killen to this noble fossil ; not because 1 think by so 

 doing to fix the name of Cole more firmly in the minds 

 of geologists, where his lordship's zeal and ability have 

 already obtained for it a most honourable standing, but 

 because I think so rare a shell is worthy of his pa- 

 tronage. 



