424 Mr. W. Clark on two new species of Testaceous Mollusca. 



Upon which passage Dr. Pegge, in his edition, observes : *« These 

 bulls were probably buffaloes ; see King Cnut's Constitutiones de 

 Foresta in Spelman's Glossary, p. 241," [more correctly given in 

 Thorpe's Ancient Laws of England, 8vo. vol. i. p. 429. c. xxvii.] 

 The passage is as follows : — " Sunt et alia quam plurima animalia, 

 quae quanquam inter septa forestse vivunt, foresta? tamen nequaquam 

 censeri possunt, qualia sunt bubali, vaccse, et similia." Dr. Pegge 

 adds: — "The forest of Middlesex was not deaforested till A. 1218, 

 Hen. III. This forest is not mentioned in the Catalogue of forests 

 given us by Spelman in his Glossary ; Enfield chace, however, is 

 thought to be a small remainder of it." He also cites the following 

 authorities : — " Whitaker's History of Manchester, p. 340. « The 

 wild cows and bulls of the country continued very frequent among 

 us in the 4th century, and even for several ages afterwards. These 

 were merely of the usual size, but all milk-white in their appearance, 

 all furnished with thick hanging manes like lions, and almost as fierce 

 and savage as they.' Boetii Scot. Reg. Desc. fol. 6, and Leslsei Hist, 

 p. 18; and hence is the popular story of the fierce wild cow of 

 Dunsmore in Warwickshire, slain by Guy Earl of Warwick." 



Whitaker gives several passages from Roman authors relative to 

 the animals of Britain. 



The Charter of Hen. I. recognises the right of the citizens of 

 London to hunt not only in Chiltern, but in Middlesex and Surrey. 



R. T. 

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XLIII. — On two new species of Testaceous Mollusca. 

 By William Clark, Esq. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 

 GENTLEMEN, Norfolk Crescent, Bath, Nov. 1, 1849. 



I beg you to record the discovery, by myself, last summer, of 

 two new species of Testaceous Mollusca in the coralline zones of 

 the Devon coast, at Exmonth. I have submitted these disco- 

 veries to the ordeal of an examination by my friends Messrs. Jef- 

 freys and Barlee, to whom I believe every British shell is fami- 

 liar, and I have their united testimony that the shells in question 

 are entirely new to them : such a test, from gentlemen of the 

 highest authority in conchological statistics, affixes the impress 

 of almost certainty that these objects are novelties. 



Skenea Cutleriana. 

 S. testa suborbiculari, albida, aliquantulum producta, anfractibus 

 tribus spiraliter exaratis ; striis subtilibus, undatis, transversis, 

 hie et illic sparsis, notata ; sutura simplex ; apertura subrotunda, 

 integra, superne in canalem brevissimam desinens ; umbilicus 

 inconspiouus, margine columnari paululum obtectus ; animal et 

 operculum adhuc latent. Longitudo et latitudo circa ^ uncia?. 



At first view I thought that this elegant minute species might 



