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SPIRULA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER: The shell cylindrical, thin, 
Dearly transparent, many chambered, partly turned into 
a discoidal spiral form; the whorls separate, the last 
Produced in a straight line. Partitions transverse, equally 
distant, externally concave ; syphon lateral, interrupted; 
„ a perlure round. 
AUSTRALIS. Nautilus Sp. Turt. Lin. Sp. A. 
Flem. Brit. An., p. 227. Crouch’s Intro., pi. 20, tig. 7. 
According to Dr. Fleming, two specimens only of this 
shell are recorded as British; having been found on the 
c oast of Ireland. 1 have been informed of several, taken 
pn the coast of Cornwall, and three specimens have come 
into my possession, that were found within a mile of my 
°wn residence; but they were destitute of an inhabitant, 
a nd one is shewn to have been for some length of time 
dead, by having attached to it the shell of a small Spirorbis. 
they were probably floated to us in the same manner as 
toe Ianthina, as before noticed; and whether the animal 
has lived in our waters is still a matter of doubt. 
T 
Second Division includes no British Shell. 
APPENDIX. 
— 
Port on the Zoology of the County of Cornwall, presented 
some alteration') to the Meeting of the British Association 
J Science, at Plymouth, in the year 1841 , forming an appendix 
0 the preceding Fauna. 
j^^he Report of the Zoology of the County of Cornwall 
S j * Presented to the British Association of Science, is de- 
ysUed to afford a summary of the species, chiefly of the 
e Ve 1 . te ^ ra te, Radiate and Testaceous classes, with the stalk 
as | genera of Crustaceans, and so many of the Zoophytes 
c° 0 ‘ d ' e been recognized by naturalists: reserving for further 
^°ubt r -ti° n l ^ e s P ec ‘ es concerning which there is anv 
„ any 
d; g "'*• It is intended also to comprize such as have been 
Cn»°- Vere d since the publication of the former portion of the 
£l ls h Fauna. 
® a Un tlle fourteen or fifteen species of Cheiroptera (Bats) 
Co rnfi at p (1 as Britis!l Mr - Boll > six arc included in the 
f Fa una; and one more (Vespertilio Discolor) lias 
ren, ai ° und at no greater distance than Plymouth. Of the 
a er, eight are too limited, in numbers and destribution, 
