VERMIOLOGY. 



compliment to Chevalier de I.amarck, the author of the work enti- 

 tled Animaux sans vertehres, who has paid particular attention to 

 this class of animals. 



In its general figure this species bears more resemblance to 

 Echinus albo-galerus than to any other of the described kinds ; but 

 Echinus albo-galerus is comparatively inconsiderable in point of 

 magnitude, and is found only in a fossil state ; and it may be also 

 added, that the disposition of the verrucosities by which our present 

 species is distinguished is totall}?^ dissimilar. In this extensive tribe 

 there are some few other approximations, but when duly considered, 

 they will be found very different from this species. 



The only specimen we have seen of this curious production, was 

 that preserved in the late Leverian Museum, and which is of course 

 the original example, from which our figure in the annexed plate is 

 depicted. — It realized at the sale of that Museum a considerable 

 price, and has, we understand, been since broken, a circumstance by 

 no means unanticipated, the shell being of the most fragile kind. 

 The destruction of the specimen will probably render the delineation 

 the more acceptable, this being, as we are informed, the only "drawing 

 that had been taken of it, excepting one by Chevalier de Barde, a 

 French gentleman of rank among Xhe ci devard noh]e^^e, who fol- 

 lowed the arts as a profession during his exile in this country, and 

 which upon the restoration of tranquillity in his native country, was 

 carried by him with his other drawings into France, and still remains 

 unpublished. 



Tfiis interesting novelty which may probably be unique, was ori- 

 ginally in the possession of Sir Ashton Lever, who received it from 

 China. 



