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988 New ‘Specks of Macht fed. i | 
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E with three viag elevated liie fiting upon the % à 
^ ruge into granules; . the lower series of granules rather $ 
: larger, and the upper one less than the middle series; " "T 
the upper series nearer to the middle one, “and obsolete — 
on the upper whorls; the lower series appearing first in 
the progress of growth ; spire elongate ; whorls about " 
- twelve ; apicial ones smooth, nearly white and pearly ; 
suture rather broad, impressed, cide Ne a revolving 
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nearly as broad as long, scarcely more than 
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the length of the shell ; ‘columella rather prominen Aen s ^ 
low, subspiral ; labrum obtusely notched by the ving |. "s 
lines ; be canal very short, not more than one- "s veis i 
i length of the aperture, slightly recurved. ` T P. s | M. 
Length about .18 inch ; breadth .05 inch. a es ae 
S. " Inhabits Dartmouth bari and was- found. E 1 
E es io marine plants, a few feet below low-water j 
E company with the Cerithium reticulatum, Tot 
| qu | Cerithium nigrocinctum, Nob. 2 
am Cabinet of the Boston Societ of Natural History, if 5 
and my own. 
xs d COMER Aug. 29th of the present year I obtained ki | 
is species in the harbor of Dartmouth. The : y * 
weed was rinsed i in a bucket of water, by which pı E T 
. off, among which were found several speci 
*- species and of the C. nigrocinctum. — a 
es take daro in he this gra ! 
