CONCH OLOfi V. 



to distinguish it from others of its family. By referring to 

 the Fossil plate in our present number, the reader will per- 

 ceive the similitude generally existing between the Fossil 

 and recent shells, and how far the difference of form in these 

 two instances, separates and sets them apart although of the 

 same genus. 



The Conus has a considerable analogy to the Genus 

 Volutella, lately established and commonly called the Uevil 

 Shell, but the latter has a much wider mouth, and also a 

 fluted columella, of the shape of a small screw. 



Notwithstanding the great and numerous variety of 

 species of this kind which have been described, new speci- 

 mens are almost daily to be met with from the importations 

 of the sea whalers and others, for almost every Island in the 

 South sea seems to have its own peculiar shells, distinct 

 from all others at present known to Conchologist. 



