Miscellaneous. 499 



totundatis, supra planulatis, in medio cinffuld bituberculatd, 

 inferne cingulis nodulosis ornatis ; apertiird rotunda; labia 

 purpurea tincio, labro intus Icevigato ; umbilico profuRdo, callo 

 columellari subobtecto. 

 Hub. ad Fretum Mosambicum. (Mus. Cuming.) 



6. Modulus duplicatus, A. Adams. 3/. testa orbiculato-conicd, 

 uinbilicatd, c(Brulescenti,fusco variegatd, spiru prominuld, acutd; 

 anfractibus planulatis, transversini sulcatis, ad peripheriam 

 cingulis duabus tuberculorum compressorum ornatis, tuberculis 

 rufo-fusco maculatis, infimd fascia convexd, concent rice sulcatd; 

 aperturd intus violascenti ; labro margine angulato, intus li- 

 rato ; umbilico mediocri. 



Hab. .? (Mus. Cuming.) 



7. Modulus OBLiauus, A. Adams. M. testd orbiculato-conicd, 

 perobliqud, albd, umbilicatd, spird depressd ; anfractibus sub- 

 planulatis, liris traiisvei'sis, elevatis, supra radiatim nodoso- 

 plicatis, ultimo in medio angulato, carind prominuld instructo, 

 infra cingulis transversis elevatis numerosis ornato ; aperturd 

 rotundd ; columelld roseo tinctd ; labro intus lirato. 



Hab. Mare Rubrum. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Eglisia Cumingii, a. Adams. E. testd turritd, solidd, albidd, 

 longitudinaliter fusco-flammulatd ; anfractibus rotundatis, cin- 

 gulis acutis, transversis (in anfractu ultimo sex), lineisque ele- 

 vatis, transversis, interpositis, ornatis, interstitiis longitudina- 

 liter tenuissimb striatis, varicibus tenuibus, longitudinalibus, 

 inaequidistantibus, instructis ; aperturd rotundatd, peristomate 

 eontinuo, labio incrassato, anticd producto, calloso, et rejlexo ; 

 labro simplici, acuto. 



Hab. Japbnia. (Mus. Cuming.) 



The obscure longitudinal varices show the true position of this 

 genus to be between Turrit ella and Scalaria. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Description of some of the Objects which cause the Lv.minosity of 

 the Sea. By Charles William Peach, of Peterhead, N.B.* 



[With a Plate.] 



There is pleasure in knowing, even when far distant from a spot 

 where so many bright days of our existence have been spent, and 

 where so many valued friends reside, that institutions with which we 

 are connected are still in existence, and to feel that a link of that 

 chain which has so long held us together is still in our possession, 

 and that the time is fast approaching when those kindred spirits will 

 be assembled at one of their annual gatherings, to whom that link, 



* Commuaicated by the Author ; having been read at the last Annual 

 Meeting of the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1850. 



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