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longed into a slender channel or claw, but is short, and suddenly curved 

 back, whilst the winged expansion of the lip is simple, though developed in 

 a variety of ways in dift'erent species. Even the early Greek fathers of 

 zoology distinguished the Strombi from the PterocerfR, sejjarating the latter 

 as Aporraides, so called in recent times by Lister, Gualter, and Aldrovandi, 

 notwithstanding the A.pes-Pelicani must have been alone the subject to 

 which Aristotle originally applied the term 'ATroppata* Lamarck is clearly 

 the first author who may be said to have published the genus Strombus in 

 its integrity; Linnseus, as M. Deshayes observes, included several shells 

 under this head, independent of the Aporrha'uhs of antiquity, which have 

 proved to belong to mollusks of different organization and habits ; such, for 

 example, as a Mela)wj)sis which had, nevertheless, been noted as a fresh- 

 water Biiccinum ; a Pleurotoma is also to be found among the Linntean 

 Strombi, an Oniscia, a Volute, and several Cerithia; whilst not one of 

 those enumerated by Lamarck has evoked a claim to any better arrangement. 

 The Strombi are pretty generally distributed throughout the globe ; the 

 largest species, the well-known S. gigas, is from the West Indies, and several 

 others abound in the same locality ; they are also tolerably abundant in 

 the Eastern world, China, Ceylon, the Moluccas, &c. ; and we have species 

 from Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Cahfornia, Sandwich Islands, the Red 

 Sea, and other places equally widely separated. They have been beautifully 

 illustrated by Mr. Sowerby in his ' Thesaurus Conchyliorum '; the figures 

 of which, though nuich diminished in size, are not the less effective to one 

 familiar with the genus. 



1. accipitrinus, Lavi. 



2. alatus, Gm. 



3. auris-Dianfe, Linn. 



4. austral! s, Sow. 



5. bituberculatus, Lam. 



6. bubonius, id. 



7. biilbuhis, So2C. 



8. Campbelli, Grai/. 



9. cauariuin, Linn. 



10. cancellatus, Lam. 



11. cohimba, id. 



12. coiiiformis, Sow. 



13. crenatus, id. 



14. crispatus, id. 



15. deformis, Gray. 



16. deutatus, Linn. 



Species. 



17. dilatatus, Lam. 



18. dubiiis, Sow. 



19. elegans, id. - 



20. epidromis, Jjinn. 



21. fasciatus, Gm. 



22. fissurella, Linn. 



23. floridus, Lam. 



24. fusiformis, Sow. 



25. galeatus, IFood. 



26. gallus, Linn. 



27. gibberulus, id. 



28. gi^as, id. 



29. glabratus, Sow. 



30. GoHath, Ckemn. 



31. gracilior, Wood, 



32. granulatus, id. 



33. hemastoma, Sow. 



34. inermis, id. 



35. Isabella, Lam. 



36. labiosus. Wood. 



37. laciniatus, Chemn. 



38. Lamarckii, Gray. 



39. latissimus, Linn. 



40. lentiginosus, id. 



41. lineatus. Lam. 



42. Luliuanus, Linn. 



43. maculatiis, Nutt. 



44. marginatus, Linn. 



45. Mam-jtiamis, Lam. 



46. melanostoma, Swain. 



47. Nov0eZelaudioe,C%e/«». 



48. papilio, id. 



See note p. 89. 



