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VARIATION AND REGENERATION. 



Once a verj' abnormal shell was presented to me at Ralum in New Britain, in 

 which the shell was divided into two nearly equal halves by a submedian raphe, re- 

 minding one of the shell-slit of Pleurotomaria. The raphe extended back over the 



Fig. 15. Malformed shell of ^V. pompilius. 



involuted coils of the shell, and I am unable to decide whether it was due to an 

 injuiy to the mantle or to some congenital malformation. 



