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The figure alfo given by Mr. Donovan for a Brili/Jj fpe 

 cimen of A. JVoce in the fame plate as referred to before, is 

 fo extremely fmiilar to that we have figured for fuch, that 

 was it not for tlie magnified figure reprefenting fuch coarfe 

 longitudinal /?n>, wefliould not have hefitated at pronouncing 

 it to be the fufca, being wholly defiitute of the remarkable 

 diagonal bands, and the ufual proje6ling angle which con- 

 tinues in a line with the hinge at the longer end^in JVoce. If 

 however fuch is really a minute fpecimen of that fliell, 

 which from infancy has not attained its ufual chara6lers, we 

 may fairly conclude the young fpecimen from which our 

 figure was taken may alfo be of that fpecics. We 

 mufl however remark that we have lately feen a live Ana 

 J^occ taken by Mr. Laskey, in Cornzvall, three quarters of an 

 inch wide, and another little inferior from Dunbar^ in Scot- 

 land, both of which though fmall had the diagonal brown 

 markings, and were flrongly ribbed : the former was co- 

 vered with a brown fcaly epidermis^ becoming deeply fringed 

 at the angles of the fmaller end. 



The author of the Briti/Jj Shells remarks that the figure 

 he has given for Area fufca, is from a fpecimen found witii 

 the other in Cornwall. We have alio found this fpecies on 

 the fouth coaft of Devon, upon the fands, and amongft the 

 rocks at Milton not very uncommon, in all the intermediate 

 flages of growth from the fize of a barley-corn, to that of 

 three quarters of an inch in length, and an inch and a half 

 in breadth ; and upon comparing them with foreign fpeci- 

 mens of what Doctor Solan der had denominated fufca, 



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