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Shell dextral, ovate-conic, solid, corneous ; whorls six, faintly 

 margined; aperture ovate; columella with a strong plaited 

 tooth ; outer lip slightly thickened, white ; columellar lip ex- 

 panded and applied to the body whorl. 



Length 0.3 inch. Breadth 0.1 inch. 



Habitat.— E. Maui. 



VI. — Note to the "Description of the Selene Argentea of 

 Lacepede ;" at Vol. V. p. 68 of these Annals. 



By T Carson Brevoort. 

 Read May 2?>d, 1853. 



Since the above paper was published I have met with two 

 highly interesting notices of this once doubtful species of fish. 

 The first is a description only, but taken from nature, by Dr. 

 Johann David Schopf, a military physician who accompanied 

 the German auxiliaries to this country during the American 

 Eevolutionary war. He was a man of a high order of intelli- 

 gence, and besides the memoir here to be quoted from, published 

 two other works relating to the United States : viz. his " Jour- 

 ney through some of the Middle and Southern Slates, Florida and 

 the Bahamas, in 1783-84," two vols. 8vo., Erlangen, 1788 ; and his 

 " Contributions to the Mineralogy of the Eastern Portion of North 

 America and of its Mountain Districts" Erlangen, 1787, pp. 194. 

 These works have never been translated, and are almost un- 

 known in this country, though abounding with valuable infor- 

 mation on many subjects. His paper on American fish is 

 entitled " Beschreibungen einiger Nord Amerikanischer Fische, 

 vorzilglich aus den Neu- Yorkischen Gewcissern." It was published in 

 the eighth vol. of the " Schriften der Gesellschaft naturforschender 



