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nineteen of them being unique specimens, viz. C. baccatus (Sowb), 
C. Bockii (Sowb), C. Brazieii (Sowb), C. catenatus (Sowb), C. carnalis 
(Sowb), C. chytreus (Melvill), C. dianthus (Sowb), C. Du Saveli (H. 
Adams), C. euetrios (Sowb and Melvill), C. Evelynse (Sowb and Melvill), 
C. gracilis (Sowb), C. marchionatus (Hinds), /3 eudoxus (Melvill), 
C. Melvilli (Sowb), C. multilineatus (Sowb), C. racemosus (Sowb), 
C. reflectus (Sowb), C. sindon (Eeeve), C. Traversianus (E. A. Smith), 
C. Wilmeri (Sowb). Of these, C. Du Saveli (H. Adams) is the most 
beautiful cone known, and differs widely in several particulars from any 
other species. It was found in 1870-71, in the stomach of a fish, at 
60 fathoms, off the North Coast of Mauritius. 
Some fine specimens of the five most highly esteemed of the genus, 
C. gloria maris (Chem), C. Omaicus (Hwass), C. cedo nulli (Chem), 
C. rhododendron (Couthouy) C. cervus (Lamarck), the last two being 
the original types of the species. 
Also C. fulmen (Eeeve), the beautiful type figured in his Conchologia 
Iconica; C, ammiralis (L.), C. archithalassus (Dillwyn), C. floccatus 
(Sowb), C. Magdalen 00 ^(Kien), C. aurisiacus (L.), C. zonatus (Brug), 
Vidua (Eeeve), Orbignyi (Aud), and others. 
In the genus Voluta (L.) several rarities were shown, perhaps the 
most select being Y. festiva (Lam.) from E. Africa — the specimen for- 
merly in the Dennison collection; V. Junonia (Chem) a noteworthy shell 
of extreme rarity from the Gulf of Mexico ; Y. aulica (Sowb), Y. cym- 
biola (Ch.), Sophise (Gray), pulchra (Sowb), Thatcheri (McCoy), papil- 
laris (Swn), fulgetrum (Sowb), Sclateri (Cox), punctata (Swn), &c., while 
Y. Prevostiana (Crosse) must not be omitted, this being the only speci- 
men known in good condition, and the type, formerly in the collection 
of Dr. Prevost, of Alen 9 on. 
In Mitra were the unique M. rugosa (Sowb), and M. Melvilli (Sowb), 
besides the raxe M. gigantea (Swn), formosa (Adams), macrospira (Eve), 
and an almost exhaustive series of the striking forms belonging to the 
subgenus Tueeicula, e.g. regina (Sowb), Dennisoni (Eeeve), taeniata 
(Lam), vittata (Sowb), Tayloriana (Sowb), Berthae (Sowb), coccinea 
(Eeeve), balteolata (Eeeve), pullata (Eeeve), &c. 
In Maeginella (Lam) were several types figured in Eeeves’ Con- 
chologia Iconica; mostly originally in the Lombe-Taylor collection, e g., 
M. mosaica (Sowb), M. elegans (Gmelin), M. Petitiana (Duo), M. undu- 
lata (Chem), also a curious sinistral M. conoidalis, and two magnificent 
specimens of M. Goodalli. 
In CYPE.aEA (L.) the finest of the seven specimens known of C. guttata 
(Gray), also C. nivosa (Brod), C. aurantium (Mart), the badge of royalty 
among the Friendly Islanders and the Tahitians, and the unique Trivia 
costispunctata (Gaskoin), &c. 
Amongst the Buccinid^, Bdllia pura (Melvill), recently described 
from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the unique Pseudoliva stereoglypta 
(Sowb and Melvill), and the curious P. ancilla (Hanley). 
