74 Russell's Familiar Notice of some of the 



Beaches of Essex County ; rare ; taken from fish in deep water. 

 Found with the living animal on Phillips' beach, by J. True. 

 Cabinet of the Society. 



TURBO^OBSCURUS. Couthouy. Latin, dull, obscure. 



A pretty new species, more or less pearly under the epider- 

 mis ; thin ; a single line on each whorl ; aperture nearly circu- 

 lar ; operculum horny. 



Described by Couthouy, in Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., 

 p. 100, pi. iii., fig. 12. 



Nahant and Lynn beaches. 



My Cabinet Cabinet of Society. 



ADDENDA. 



CANCELLARIA BUCCINOIDES. Coutlwuy. 

 Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 105, pi. iii., fig. 3. 

 Shell oval ; whorls five. Cross barred with striae and points. 

 Columella with three oblique striae. Color white ; resembles 

 somewhat, Nassa. 



Stomach of fish at Half-way rock, and also on Lynn beaches. 

 Cabinet of the Society and of Dr. Prescott. 



ROSTELLARIA OCCIDENTALS. Guerin; Mag. 



Western Rostellaria. 



Fragments of this fine shell at Phillips' beach. 

 I possess a tolerable specimen, which I collected at Saco, 

 Me., in the summer of 1834. 



PYRAMIS. Brown. 



STRIATULUS. Couth. Latin, slightly striated. 

 Shell elongated, pyramidal ; whorls about nine ; aperture 

 ovate ; color, bluish white. Rare. Lynn beaches. 

 Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 101, pi. i., fig. 6. 

 Cabinet of Dr. Prescott. 



