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is a large and very beautiful shell ; this is the Broad- 

 winged Strombus (S. latissimus) , probably from 

 latesco — to wax or grow broad, or large ; issimus 

 being in the superlative degree, would indicate that 



this shell was very much so, as we find it is, some- 

 times measuring as much as twelve inches across. 

 In Plate II. is a representation of this handsome 

 shell, greatly reduced in size, of course. See Fig. 4. 

 We here give a figure, as more curious than beauti- 

 ful, of the Scorpion Pteroceras (P. scorjpius), which 



CHINESE SPINDLE. 



also belongs to the Stromlidce family ; as does the 

 curious Chinese Spindle (Rostellaria rectirostris) . 

 The generic name of the first of these species 



