to2 Praeger — The Marine Shells 



Pleurotoma rufa, Montagu. 



Living, rare, off Groomsport (Waller), and dead on the Turbot Bank— 

 Hyndman (Mangelia rufa). Dead shells in Strangford Lough — Thompson, 

 Dickie, and R.L1.P.; and in the channel outside— Dickie. 



var. lactea. " A small form of this pretty variety, mostly having the upper 

 part of the spire tinged with purplish-brown, was procured by Mr. Hynd- 

 man from Port Ballantrae, Co. Antrim "—Jeffreys. 



var. Ulideana. "Round the Irish coasts, but rare"— Thompson (sub P. 

 Ulideana) . 



Pleurotoma turricula, Montagu. 



"Of general occurrence" — Thompson. Living in 25 fathoms off Black 

 Head ; dead, rare, on the Turbot Bank, and off Ballygalley Head, and fre- 

 quent in 5-6 fathoms in Belfast Lough — Hyndman. Dead, rare, in Strang- 

 ford Lough — Dickie [Mangelia turricula). Bangor — Belf. Mus. Coll. 

 Crawfordsburn, dead— Mr. Swanston. Oultra, dead— R. LI. P. 



[Pleurotoma Trevelyana, Turton. 



Dredged in 25 and 27 fathoms in the neighbourhood of the Turbot Bank — 

 Hyndman [Mangelia Trevelliana). Jeffreys considers that the specimens 

 there obtained were glacial fossils. The species is entirely northern.] 



Marginella lsevis, Donovan. 



"Magilligan, Co. Londonderry, G. C. Hyndman" — Thompson (sub Erato 

 Icevis) . 



Cypraea Europaea, Montagu. 



Generally diffused throughout our waters, living in from about to 20 

 fathoms. In a dead state it is thrown up on most sandy beaches, and was 

 dredged in up to 100 fathoms depth near the Maidens. The pretty and well- 

 known shells of this, the only British cowry, are locally called "Johnny- 

 grots," which is a corruption of the Scotch name of " John- o'- Groat's 

 buckie," Bulla diaphana, recorded by Thompson as taken in Strangford 

 Lough, is the young of the present species before the outer lip is formed . 



[Cypraea moneta. 



" Specimens of this shell have been frequently found on the shore near 

 Bangor, Co. Down. Although not indigenous, its occurrence may be worth 

 noticing, as there is a tradition that a ship engaged in the slave trade was 

 wrecked there, and thus the cowries are accounted for" — Hyndman. It is 

 the money-cowry of South Africa.] 



Ovula patula, Pennant. 



"A shell of this species, found some years ago on the sandy beach of 

 Magilligan, County of Londonderry, by Mrs. B. A. Hyndman, of Dublin, 

 is in the cabinet of Mr. Hyndman, at Belfast" — Thompson. A single dead 

 specimen dredged by Mr. "Waller on the Turbot Bank— Hyndman. These 

 are the only notes of the occurrence of this curious shell in the North of Ire- 

 land. The Magilligan specimen is in the Belfast Museum. 



