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color as these knobs, and is very smooth. There is 

 a light pink spot on the side of the shell near the 

 pillar. The suture can not be seen. 



' ' The mollusk lives in shallow water around the 

 Japan Islands, the Philippine Islands, Borneo, 

 Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Gilolo, Ceram, Amboyna, 

 Timor, Sumbawa, Sumba, Socotra, Ceylon, the 

 Maldive and Laccadive Islands, the Comoro Islands, 

 Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion, and on the 

 coasts of China, Hindostan, Beluchistan, Persia, 

 Arabia, Turkey, Somali, Zanguebar, Mozambique, 

 Zulu Land, Natal, Caffraria and Cape Colony. 

 There are one thousand of the Japan Islands, and 

 they are very mountainous, some of the mountains 

 being two miles high. The best market-places for 

 the Strombus lambis are at Tokio, the capital of 

 Japan, Borneo, the capital of Borneo, Manila, the 

 capital of the Philippine Islands, Colombo, the capi- 

 tal of Ceylon, and Tananarivo, the capital of Mada- 

 gascar. There are sixty-five different species of 

 Strombus, and we have studied five, the Strombus 

 Canarium, the Strombus lentiginosus, the Strom- 

 bus pugilis, the Strombus melanostoma, and the 

 Strombus lambis." 



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