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were taken by the trawl, near the Eddistone Light-house. 

 Mr. Dillwyn observes, that Gronovius considered this spe- 

 cies as British, and that Montagu had informed him, a spe- 

 cimen had been taken somewhere in Scotland ; but no no- 

 tice is taken of it in his writings, or by any conchologist of 

 that country, v. v. 



We have retained Gmelin's specific name, both as his 

 work is in general use, and as it has been adopted by Shaw 

 and Chemnitz. 



Solen diclivis. p. 164. 



Lister in his notes has the following remark : " This shell 

 seems to be Chamous, or naturally open at both ends ; it 

 hath a ridge or depressed sinus at the end, where the hinge 

 is, otherwise it is equally obtuse and broad at both ends, 

 not unlike the Solen kind, among which it might be placed; 

 it is thin and hollow and of a brown color. I never saw 

 but this one pair of them in Mr. C s (Charltons) cabinet. 

 From the Mediterranean sea." 



Turbo elegantissimus. p. 209. 



Turbo acutus. Donovan, pi. 179. f. 1. 

 p. 6. 1. 4, from the bottom, after shell thick, read or- 

 bicular. 



p. 23. 1. 16, for outer-lip, read pillar-lip. 

 p. 82. 1. 1, erase, beaks large, prominent, quite cen- 

 tral. 



p. 93, for Montagu, pi. 263, read p. 263. 

 p. 126. I. 14, for Turbo canalis, read Turbo Lacuna. 

 p. 136. 1. 32, far Da Costa, pi. 3, readpl. 8. 

 p. 174. 1. 4, erase, one of the valves more convexthan 



the other, 

 p. 221, 1. 8, from the bottom, for the tenth of a line, 



read the tenth of an inch. 



p. 239, 1. 11, from the bottom, add Walker, f. 82. 

 By an unavoidable accident, the drawings of the follow- 

 ing figures did not reach us till it was too late to refer to 

 them in the letter-press. They may easily be added with a 

 pen or a pencil. 



Area minuta. Minute Ark. Fig. 98. 



Buccinum carinatum. Carlnated It'helk. Fig. 94. 



Helix ianthina. Blue Snail-shsil. Fig. 96. 



Murex 



