104 



bought in lot 24,87 with the word Lincoln attached to the 

 name, purporting, (it isprefumed) that it cair.e from that 

 county. This identical specimen is now in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Laskey, by whofe favor we have been enabled to give 

 a figure of it, but we mull confefs that neither ourfelves, 

 nor any modern collectors to our knov,'ledge, have been 

 fortunate enough to find it, or dilcover any traces, of its 

 habitat, in addition to what has already been related. 



Catinata. We found in a parcel of occidental fhells a great number 



p. 236. of this fpecies, differing in nothing but in wanting the rufous 



fpots; and the band of opaque-white fpots vary in number 



from four to feven or eight, and are fo obfolete as Icarcely 



to be traced by the naked eye. 



BUCCINUM. 



Lapillus. Zi}K Trans, viii. p. 135. 



p. 239. Pult. Hutch. Dorset, t. 15. f. 1.— 4, 9, <Sf 12. 



In our former account of this fliell we omitted to fpeak of 

 the very extraordinary /«ca^.y produced by the animal in- 

 habitant, from perfonal experience, though we made mention 

 of the beautiful colour it yielded ; and referred to authors 

 where fome information might be obtained on tlie fubjeft. 

 \\ e have fince attended more fully to experiments on the 

 dye, or colouring matter extracted from tliis, as well as 



from 



