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SPECIFIC 
figured in Plate XXVII. and the last in Plate 
XXVIII., are all in the possession of Mrs. Mawe, 
They are certainly rare, and some of them are 
supposed unique ; if either of them have been 
previously named or figured by any other writer, 
it is not within the knowledge of the author, who 
is far from wishing to lay claim to originality not 
his own, or to impose his names in preference to 
such as have been already conferred. In selecting 
the names he has endeavoured to find those which 
shall express some remarkable character of the 
species, and which may in some degree distinguish 
them from others by the meaning they convey, and 
not merely by their verbal sound. 
Fig. 2. Buccinum Pseudodon. 
Shell oblong, solid, transversely striate ; whorls 
obtusely carinate, surrounded with transverse raised 
bands ; aperture crenate, columella with two plaits. 
Nondescript. 
Specimen white, covered with a transparent 
brown epidermis ; raised bands dark brown ; aper- 
ture white, ovate ; a few elevated striae above the 
plaits on the columella, which is rather impressed 
