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is a large and very beautiful sliell ; tliis is tlie Broad- 

 winged Strombus {S. latissimus), probably from 

 latesco — to wax or grow broad^ or large ; issiimis 

 being in the superlative degree^ would indicate that 



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iliis sliell was very mucli so^ as we find it is^ some- 

 times measuring as mucli as twelve inclies across. 

 In Plate II. is a representation of tliis handsome 

 shelly greatly reduced in size_, of course. See Fig. 4. 

 We here give a figure^ as more curious than beauti- 

 fulj of the Scorpion Pteroceras (P. scorplus), whicli 



CniNESE SPIJsDLE. 



also belongs to the StromhiJ.ce family ; as docs the 

 curious Chinese Spindle {Rostellaria rectirostris) . 

 The generic name of the first of these species 



