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fully elucidating the forms, sculpture and anatomy of the groups 

 treated on. A copious index is appended to the volume, which 

 embraces not only a full synonomy of all the species mentioned 

 in the volume, but a detailed and lucid explanation of the plates 

 with which it is enriched. 



The work, as far as it has been issued, promises to be of a 

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 of Conchologists in determining any doubtful specimens they 

 may have occasion to examine. 



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LIST OF MOLLUSCA OBTAINED IN SOUTH CARO- 

 LINA AND FLORIDA (PRINCIPALLY AT THE ISLAND 

 OF KEY WEST IN 1871-1872. 



By JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S. 



Class: CEPHALOPODA. 



1. Octopus (sp.) 



About three feet in diameter, body fawn colored, with 

 white spots. Key West, among loose blocks of coral. 



2. Spirula laevis (Gray). 



Abundantly cast ashore at Key West, but often in 

 fragmentary condition. 



