PLATE LII. 



In the preceding plate we have introduced the representation 

 of that magnificent shell the Broad- winged Strombus, or Strombus 

 Latissimus of Linnaeus and most other writers. 



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Owing to the unusual magnitude of the shell, it was only the 

 dorsal view of this species that could be given in that plate without 

 diminishing the representation to a size too diminutive to convey an 

 adequate idea of the shell. The lower surface or aperture is no less 

 interesting than its dorsal view, or less explanatory of its characters, 

 and it is for this reason that the subject has been reserved for the 

 present plate : the two plates following immediately in succession, 

 and thus mutually assisting each other in the elucidation of this very 

 superb shell. 



It has been already observed, that the ample dilated lip or wing 

 of the present species is the character by which its state of full 

 maturity is distinguished, the lip in the younger state being des- 

 titute of any such dilation. In the present representation of the 

 subject this expansion of the lip is more conspicuous than in the 

 dorsal view, and the peculiar lobe and sinuosities of the lip, which 

 form the generical distinction of the Strombus genus, and which do 

 not appear in the dorsal view, are here particularly conspicuous. 



We have before mentioned that this fine shell is a native of the 

 Indian seas. 



