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fpotted with white: eyes black, at the bafe of the tenta' 

 cula beneath ; fujlentaculuni ftiort, white. 



2- 

 Strombus coflatus. Pi/!t. Cat. Dorfet. ^. 4:2. Costatus. 



Don Br Shells, iii. t. 94. 

 Strombifonnis coftatus. Da Cojia p. 1 i3. t. S. f. 14. 



S. with ten or eleven volutions of a dark brown colour, 

 tapering to a fine point; furnifhed with numerous, fine, 

 clofe fet ribs, and an elevated, fpiral line, turning round 

 the bottom of each volution, becoming double at the bafe 

 of the (hell, and is lofl in the upper part : aperture fub- 

 orbicular, outer lip a little expanded; inner lip fmooth, 

 with a fub-canal. Length rather lefs than half an inch. 



It varies in colour from light brown to a deep chefnut, 

 but ufually the latter. In fome the outer lip is a little 

 thickened at the margin. 



Da Costa fays this fpecies is found on the coafis of 

 Cornwall. We have taken it on Milton fands on the 

 fouth coafl of Devon; but is certainly a rare Englijh IhelJ, 



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