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B. with a fub-oval (hell, with five or fix volutions ; the 

 firft very large and tumid, the others fmall in proportion, 

 marked with flat, tranfverfe ridges, broader than the in- 

 terftices: colour yeilowifli-brown, marbled and {"potted 

 with white: aperture large, oval; outer lip thin, plain; 

 lower part of the inner lip a little replicated, forming a 

 fub-umbilicus. 



Exotic fhells grow to a large fize; thofe which have 

 been found in England, are not larger than a hazel nut, 

 as we are informed by Doftor Pulteney; who fays, it 

 has been dredged up at Weymouth, and thrown up after 

 ftorms. We obferved it in Mr. Bryer's cabinet, who 

 aflured us he found it on the fame coaft. 



9. 

 Buccinum lineatura. T)a Cojia.p, 130. t. S. f. 5. LrNEATUM, 



Pult. Cat. Dorfct. p 41. 

 Don. Br. Shells, i. t. 15. 

 Turt. Lin. iv. p. 387. 



B. with a ftrong, fmooth, conic (hell, with five or fix 

 volutions, regularly banded with alternate, fpiral lines, of 

 chocolate-brown and white, that gives it the appearance 

 of being ftriated: apex fliarp, pointed: aperture oval; 

 outer lip a little fpreading, margin marked by the brown 

 lines, that look like crenulce. Length a quarter of an 

 inch; breadth one eighth. 



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