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and colour of the aperture and the plaits on the pillar. The 

 aperture of Fol. conciima is fulvous, and the inner lip, whei'e tiie 

 mantle has extended, is of the same colour, with a few traces of the 

 longitudinal lineations not yet obliterated. 

 My specimen is the only one I have seen. 



CoNus Adamsonii. Con. testd solidd, subcylindraced, glahrd, albidd 

 rosea pallido spadiceoque tessellatd ; anfractu basali superne et ad 

 basin sulcata, sulcis elevatis latis (mterstitiis superlorum sub- 

 punctatis), fasciis tribus subaquidistantibus spadiceo-maculatis 

 ornato ; spird brevi, anfractibus subconcavis, transversim striatis . 

 Hub. ?. 



Mus. Adamson. 



This species is nearly as solid and ponderous as Con . Stercus Miis- 

 carum, which it resembles somewhat in shape, though Con. Adamsonii 

 is longer in projjortion. It has also points which remind the observer 

 of Con. bullatus ; but is more nearly allied to Con. discrepans. Conch. 

 lUustr. f. 28. 



PuKPURA Geavesii. Puvp. testd sordide albd, muricatd, striis va- 

 lidis, elevatis, imbricato-squamulosis rugosd ; anfractibus langi- 

 tudinaliter subplicatis, angulosis, angulis laminatis, serratis, re- 

 troversis ; anfractu basali strid validiore, submediali, elevatd 

 cincto : long, -i^, lat. -^%y poll. 

 Hab. in mari Mediterraneo. 

 Mus. Norris, Brod. 



This shell was brought up on the fluke of the anchor of H.M.S. 

 Mastiff, sur\-eying- vessel, under the command of Lieut. Graves (who 

 has already enriched this department of natural history by his acti- 

 vity in collecting, whenever the pressure of his professional duties 

 would allow him to do so,) from a muddy bottom, and a depth of ten 

 fathoms, off Napoli di Romania. The shell varies much, and other 

 specimens have not the carinations, &c. nearly so much developed. 



There is a figure of this species in Mr. Sowerby's ' Conchological 

 Illustrations,' under the name of Murex cariniferus. 



BuLiNUS Ckichtoni. Bui. testd fusiformi, longitudinaliter costatd 

 et carrugatd, costis rugisqiie validis, subalbidd maculis spadiceis 

 notatd; labia rosacea-violaceo, labro pallidiore, expanso, subreflexo: 

 long. 3 (circiter), lat. l^poll. 

 Hab. ad Ambo juxta Huanuco Peruviae. 

 Mus. Brod. 



This curious shell, which at first sight reminds the observer of 

 Bulinus Labeo, Brod., (Zool. Journ., vol. iv. p. 222,) brought home 

 by Lieut. Maw, R.N., and presented by him to the Zoological Society 

 of London, from whose Museum it has been stolen*, differs strongly 

 from it, as will be seen by a reference to the figure in the ' Zoolo- 



* This certainly was, and I believe (wherever it maybe) is, the only spe- 

 cimen in Europe. It was in remarkably fine coiiditiorj. 



