CONCHOLOGY. 



to accede, upon the implied condition, that they were to be restored 

 when we had fully availed ourselves of the information they would 

 afford us, and this condition of course has been fulfilled ; the papers 

 and the drawings have been copied with fidelity , and being returned, 

 are now deposited as before, among the manuscripts of the Society. 

 From the recital of these circumstances, it will be obvious to the 

 scientific reader, that he has only to thank us for our endeavours to 

 contribute to his knowledge^, by the insertion of the article in our 

 publication. He is indebted entirely to the liberality of the Linnean 

 Society, and to the good wishes of the author of the communications, 

 for permitting the publication. We believe it to be a new and 

 hitherto undescribed species ; and under that impression, have no 

 hesitation in assigning it the specific name of Guildingii, in compli- 

 ment to the gentleman, through whose attention to the science of 

 of Natural History it was first introduced to the notice of the 

 learned world. 



This animal, as it has been well observed by Mr. Guilding, bears 

 a strong resemblance to Amphitrite auricoma, but is nevertheless 

 distinct. By Amphitrite auricoma we conclude the author of the 

 paper adverts to the Zoologia Danica, and in that particular the 

 observation is correct. TheAmphitrite auricoma ofMiiller is the animal 

 inhabitant of the arenaceous tube, called by Linnaeus and the Linnsean 

 School, Sabella Belgica, and which we have ourselves met with very 

 rarely in a living state, after a storm, upon our own coast. We are 

 thus assured from our own experience of the accuracy of the remark 

 of Mr. Guilding, but, we may also add, that the new species bears 

 a yet more close approximation to the Amphitrite Capensis, than to 



