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We confefs this fliell has caufed fome wavering in our 

 mind, withrefpe6l to whether it really was the fpecies de- 

 fcribed by tliat author, and muft own that popular opinion 

 had connderable influence in refering to S.glabtr, inliead 

 of albus of Da Costa, finding fuch were the fentimcjits 

 of all our conchological friends, who had coIle6led, 

 and particularly attended to Briti/h Teftacea. It is however 

 but right to acknowledge, that as Mr. Donovan has given 

 a fhell which better accords with the defcription of Da 

 Costa's Stromhijormis glaber, under the title of Turbo fubu- 

 latus, with a reference to the fhell in queftion, we are 

 inclined to agree with him ; and therefore requefl that the 

 fynonym of Strombiformis albus, under the title of Helix, 

 labioja, in Tejiacea Britannica p. 4OO, may be cancelled, 

 having transfered it to this fpecies in the room of Strombi- 

 formis glaber, which is now affixed to Helixfiibulata, 



SuBULATA. TuxhosnhxxldXns. Don. Br. Shells. V. t. 172. 



Strombit'onnis glaber. Da Costa, p. 117- 

 Helix subulata. Lin. Trans, viii. p. 2l0. 



Piilt, Hutch. Dorset, t. ij)' f. 14. 



Shell fubulate, extremely fmooth and glofly, being defli- 

 tuteofy7/7ie or wrinkles, and tapering to a fine point, with 

 about ten fcarcely defined wreaths : the colour is white, 

 marked with two faint yellowifh lines, which follo\y the 

 rpiral lurn of the Ihell, but become obfolete towards the aptx : 

 aperture narrow, conrrafted at the interior angle. Length 

 "^^ut three quarters of an inch. 



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