TROPHON. 447 



Introduced hy Pulteney, as froin Weymouth. As some doubts 

 exist about the identity of the American and Oriental specimens, it 

 may he as well to observe, that the Jamaica form is the shell intend- 

 ed hy our British ivriters, 



Pyrula carica, Graelin. 



Knorr, Delices des Yeux, pt, G, pi. 27, f. 1. — Martini, Conch. 



Cab. vol. iii. pi. 67, f. 744 ; pi. 69, f. 756. 

 Murex carica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3545. — Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 86, f. 26. 



— DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 722. 

 Pyrula „ Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. ix. p. 505. — Fleming, Brit. 



Anim. p. 347. — Thompson, Report Brit. Assoc. 1843, p. 257. 



— Brit. ]\Iarine Conch, p. 208. — Desh. Encyl. Meth. Vers, 



vol. iii. p. 866. — Kiener, Coq. Viv. Pj'rula, pi. 3,f. 1. — Gould, 



Invert. Massach. p. 296. — Dekay, New York Moll. p. 141, 



pi. 9, f. 192, 193. 

 „ Aniana, Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. iv. pi. 5, f. 16. 



From the southern coast of the United States ; introduced into 

 our Fauna as Irish hy Turton, who ivas deceived by the party 

 from whom he procured it. 



Cassis. 



Buecinum demissatum, Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. pi. 79, bottom figures. 

 „ hiluicatiim (not of Gmelin, from List. Hist. Conch, pi. 998, f. 63, 

 only), Rack. Dorset Catalog, pi. 17, f. 8 (copied from 

 Penn.). 



A young exotic Cassis, in all j^fohahility an immature stage of 

 the West Indian testiculus (iTiewer, Coq. Vivant. Cos. pi. 9,f. 17), 

 tvas introduced hy Pennant as from Weymouth. Pxdteney, who 

 added it to his Dorset list, on the authority of Pennant (as B. porca- 

 tum, Hist. Dorset, Appx. p. 41, copied as bilineatum by Montagu, 

 Test. Brit. p. 244 ; Maton and Each. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. 

 p. 134 ; Pack. Dorset Catal. p. 44 ; Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 17 ; 

 Cassis bilineata, Brit. Mar. Conch, p. 211), appears to have de- 

 scribed, as its adult state ("inner lip rugose and granulate" J, a 

 distinct species, possibly the recurvirostrum of Reeve's " loonica.'" 



