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garden or damp spot, it is found in large numbers clinging to 
rotten wood, stumps of trees, and old palings. 
Achatina, Lam. 
*A. exulata, Benson.— Both this and the following species are 
now found only in a semi-fossil state embedded in the surface-soil on 
the Side-Path road above The Briars, &c. 
*A. subplicata, G. B. Sow. 
Order Siphonobranchtata. 
Fam. Conid<e. 
Conus, Linn. 
*G. testudinarius, Martini. — Picked up, but not alive, on the 
windward sea coast. 
*C. irregularis, G. B. Sow. — Pound under similar circum- 
stances as the former species. 
Fam. Cypraidce. 
Marginella, Lam. 
*M. n. sp. — A very beautiful little pearly-white shell, about one- 
eighth of an inch in length, found amongst the sand in the pools on 
the West Bocks. 
Cyprsea, Linn. 
*C. lurida, L. — A rather large dark brown shell, about an inch 
a nd three-quarters in length, picked up somewhat abundantly, but 
not alive, on the windward coast. 
*C. spurca, Lam. — A smaller species, of a light brown colour, 
spotted or mottled in appearance; found under similar circumstances 
as the last. 
*C. turdus, Linn. — A still smaller species, about three-quarters of 
an inch long, brown in colour, with spotted sides, found with the 
other species. 
C. moneta, Linn. — The common white money-cowrie is occasion- 
ally pi c k e q U p on beach, but only in a dead state ; and, as it is 
often carried about in ships, especially those trading on the coasts of 
Africa, it may possibly have fallen overboard in the roadstead 
