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553 Buprestis sternicornis, two specimens, India ; four Indian 



cimices, Mylabris Cichorei, &c. thirteen specimens 



554 Curculio palmarum, Cimex pictus, Carabus bimaculatus, 



Cetonia viridis, and thirteen others 



555 Specimen of Persian Cow's-tail, in glass case 



556 Sphinx Celeris, Ocellata, fuciformis, Papilio Levana, and 

 , / fifteen others 



557 Curious netted sponge, supposed variety of Spongia Can- 

 J 9 cellata 



558 A large and fine coloured purple variety of Gorgonia flabel- 



lum, and another divested of the flesh 

 55Q Gorgonia flabellum, a cavernous sponge, and muricated 

 fcV Millepore 



560 Millepora foliacea, a fine specimen 



501 Curious muricated sponge on its native rock, to which also 



adheres an orange-coloured spondylus shell, West Indies 



502 Madrepora Seriata of Pallas, from the East Indies, a delicate 



specimen 



563 Gorgonia Setosa, Linn. Bahama^ Millepora alcicornis, and 

 muricata 



504 Long-branched warted gorgon, Mediterranean; singular 



sponge, and another 



505 Stem of a gorgonia, with a large serpula shell adhering, and 



both overrun with a millepora alcicornis, from the West 

 Indies; Spongia infundibuliformis and gorgonia flabellum 



506 Stony- white Millepore, Mediterranean 5 Millepora Polymor- 

 ph^, Linn. 



567 A bottle which having lain some time in the Sea, is overrun 

 with serpulae 



568 Curious sponge adhering to a Pecten Ostrea, and one shell 



of a bivalve exhibiting delicate shoots of isis nobilis, 

 affixed by its natural base to the inner surface 



569 Madrepora Agaricites, Linn. West Indies 



570 The lesser tulip cuma, Florida 5 and a Buccinum, Falkland's 



Isle — loth rare 



371 A capital group of five purple spondyli, with other adhesions, 

 Sicily jj 



572 A fine orange-mouth ear-like terrestrial shell (Voluta ejon- 

 gata Soland.) New Caledonia-^very scarce 



5/3 The butter-firkin cone fConus letulinus Linn) from China; 

 and a scarce pink variety of the zebra Trochus 



574 A fine heavy turnip, (voluta gravis Soland.) Straits of Ma- 



lacca j and a pair of beautiful small triton's trumpet, Sicily 



575 A large and fine Midas's-ear land shell, (Voluta aur. Mid. 



Linn) Malacca — very rare 



576 The ham pinna, of extraordinary size, Mediterranean 



#77 The shower clam, (Venus nimbosa Soland ) Florida, rare ; 

 t}ie great English pecten, and two others 



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