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mofs lived a great while, others put in a dry place very 

 foon died. 



This is not the (liell defcribed by Doclor Pulteney 

 for the //. oElona of Pennant ; his is the true Linncean 

 oclona. 



The Do6lor favoured us with a fpecimen of his fhell ; 

 and we think he mud have been deceived with regard to 

 its being EngUJli. It is a much more flender (hell than 

 this, terminates in an obtufe point, and the volutions 

 are more rounded, and gloffy white, or very light horn- 

 colour. In the aperture too it is effentially different, 

 being fub-orbicular ; the pillar lip turns inwards at the 

 bafe, and forms a contraclion, nearly allied to the Euc- 

 cirmm genus ; the length is five-eighths of an inch ; and 

 not more than one eighth broad at the bafe. Chem- 

 nitz feems to have figured this fliell, vol. ix. tab 136. 

 fig. 1264. and his defcription anfwers very well, but he 

 does not quote the H. oSioria of Linn ^ us, but»calls it. 

 Helix ofiona Indies occidentalis. 



We have alfo received it from the Wejt Indies. 



Gmelin quotes Chemnitz's figure for the LinncEnn 

 oElon^a, which is not the lead like our fliell : and alfo 

 a minute fliell given by Sciiroeter in his Fliijfconchy- 

 iien tab. 8. fig. 6. which is undoubtedly the Biiccinum 

 terrejtre of this work, and not at all like either. 



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