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this species, which was of a most beautiful purple colour, was 
always very much extruded from the shell, and the foot was of 
enormous size. The animal of Voluta magellanica is also purple, 
but of a much paler tint than that of the other Volute. I regret — 
I was unable to make drawings of the animals while alive ; but nu- 
merous specimens of both species were included in the collection of 
marine animals in spirit which I sent to the British Museum last 
ear. 
: Believe me, 
My dear Sir, 
Very truly yours, 
Rosert O, CUNNINGHAM. 
Dr. J. EB. Gray, PRS. 
A mature Shell of Cyprea fusco-dentata, Gray. 
By F. P. Marrat. 
Mr. R. Keen, of Edge Lane, Liverpool, has recently procured a 
very interesting series of this shell, numbering nine or ten varie- 
ties; they fully exhibit the different stages of growth, from the 
earlier states to the finely coloured adult individual. The question 
formerly advanced of this being a ribbed species resembling Cyprea 
capensis, Gray, 1s now completely and definitely settled. All the 
specimens hitherto obtained of this rare shell have been either young 
or decorticated ; and it would appear that the species is extremely 
rare in a perfect state. This series includes the first and only ex- 
ample known to be so. 
The shell is a very fine one, measuring 1,5, inch, with the teeth 
fully developed. The colour is dirty drab, similar to the shells 
usually figured; but the back is covered with rufous-brown close 
spots like those on Cyp. errones, Linn., and nearly as glossy, but 
has them larger, more confluent, and more suffused. The slightly 
raised ribs usually seen in young examples are not entirely oblite- 
rated by having the extra coat of enamel deposited over them. 
100 Edge Lane, Liverpool. 
Baleine des Indes. 
Under the above name there are manufactured and sold in Germany 
(and these have been offered for sale in London) longitudinal slips of 
the horn of the Long-horned Buffalo of India, called the Arnee. The 
slips are cut of different thickness and width to serve the purposes 
of the stay- and dressmakers, the longest as yet made being only 
15 inches. I fear that the slips must be much more brittle than 
good whalebone, as they are destitute of the longitudinal fibres 
that give strength to the true whalebone. If they do answer, I do 
not see why the slips might not be made of any length, the horns 
being artificially united together into a mass, as the ox-horns are in 
Paris, to make sticks and other articles.—J. E. Gray. 
