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by its bright orange mouth. The entire surface of the shell is very 
finely nodulated. 
Buccinum pyrostoma. Bucc. testd ovato-conicd, lacted, ubique can- 
cellatd, anfractibus convezis, ultimo paululiim umbilicato ; aperturd 
ovatd, fauce striatd, vivide rubra. z 
Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. it. pl. 268. f. 1. 
Long. 2; diam. 3 poll. 
Hab. ? 
A small species belonging to the genus Phos of De Montford, re- 
markable from having a deep cornelian red mouth, whilst every other 
part of the shell is milk- white. 
Exsurna. 
Exsurna Japonica. Hburn, testd ovato-conicd, apice vix acuto, levi ; 
anfractibus convexis, maculis fulvis, grandibus, regularibus, bise- 
riaiim cinctis, interstitiis maculis parvis regularibus, diagonaliter 
dispositis, ornatis ; umbilico parvo, profundo. 
Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pl. 271. f. 1. 
Long. 23; diam. 1 poll. 
Hab. ad oras Japonie ; Siebald. 
This shell is distinguished by the great regularity of the spots; 
the upper and middle portions of the whorls are encircled with a 
band of large rhomboidal spots, whilst the spaces below and between 
them are filled with small triangular-like spots, arranged across in 
regular diagonal rows. 
TEREBRA. 
TrREBRA PRETIOSA. Ter. testd longissimo-subulatd, luteold, Susco 
partim tessellata ; anfractibus tricenis, superné levibus, uniseriatim 
serratis, infra arcuato-striatis, striis numerosis, profundis ; canali 
subfleruoso. 
Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pl. 274. f. 2. 
Long. 5,9; diam. $ poll. 
Hab. ? 
This extraordinary shell, consisting of thirty whorls, exceeds five 
inches and a half in length, whilst it barely exceeds half an inch 
in breadth at the broadest part. It is F believe unique, in the col- 
lection of the Rev. Mr. Stainforth. 
Mr. Fraser exhibited a specimen of the Galago Senegalensis, pro- 
cured at Cape Coast, Western Africa, and a new species of Shrew 
from Fernando Po, which he characterized as follows :— 
Sorex (Crocrpura) Pornsis. Sor. obscure fuscus, corpore subtis 
cinereo, pedibus nigrescentibus ; auribus parwulis, distinctis ; caudd 
corpore breviori pilis obscuris adpressis, et setis longioribus ad- 
spersis. 
une. lin, 
Lgngitudo ab apice rostri ad caude basin.... 3 3 
CRUDE 62.3 RAR OR 1 10 
tarsi digitorumque........... sencnrOs16 
ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 0 10 
Hab. Clarence, Fernando Po. 
