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we are ready to~concur, as it flands by the name o^quaa'ii- 

 dens, marked by Doctor Solander, and now in the pol- 

 feflion of Mr. Laskey, having been bought at the I'ale of the 

 Portland cabinet.* 



It is however with j^leafiire we are are able to affure our 

 fcientific readers that this Iliell has recently been found to 

 inhabit Scotland, having been difcovered, together with 

 Helix lubrica, in Carline park, near Leith, by Mr. Laskey, 



^Iammillatus.. Turbo niv^mmillatus. Dun. Br. Shells, v. t. 173. 



Lin. Trans, viii. p. 166. 



This fpecles having been introduced in the work firft 

 referred to, we are under the neceflity of defcribing it in the 

 words of the author, never having been fortunate enough to 

 meet with it. 



"Shell imperforate, fub-ovate, whirls flriated A\ith raifed 

 dots, and (lightly angulated by a few of the Jlria, the dots of 

 which are larger." 



The remarks that accompany the defcription are as follows : 



" This remarkable fliell is introduced among the BritiJJj 

 fpecies of the Twho genus, only on the authority of a poft- 

 humous memorandum in the hand writing of Da Costa, 



* The quadridens of Muller is a very distinct species, and we believe has never 

 ibecn found in this couutrv. 



which 



