Praegev — -The Marine Shells 
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Pleurotoma rufa, Montagu. 
Living, rare, off Groomsport (Waller), and dead on the Turbot Bank- 
Hyndman ( Mangelia rufa). Dead shells in Strangford Lough— Thompson, 
Dickie, and R.L1.P.; and in the channel outside— Dickie. 
var. lactea. “ A small form of this pretty variety, mostly having the upper 
part of the spire tinged with purplish-brown, was procured by Mr. H} nd- 
man from Port Ballantrae, Co. Antrim ’’—Jeffreys. 
var. Ulideana. “Bound the Irish coasts, hut rare ’’-Thompson (sub P. 
TJlideana) . 
Pleurotoma turricula, Montagu. _ TJ1 , 
“Of general occurrence”— Thompson. Living in 2o fathoms off blac 
Head ; dead, rare, on the Turbot Bank, and off Bally galley Head, and fre- 
quent ’in 5-6 fathoms in Belfast Lough -Hyndman. Dead, rare, m Strang- 
ford Lough— Dickie (Mangelia turricula). Bangor— Belf. Mus. Co . 
Crawfordsburn, dead— Mr. Swanston. Cultra, dead— R.L1.P. 
[Pleurotoma Trevelyana, Turton. mini 
Dredged in 25 and 27 fathoms in the neighbourhood of the Turbot Bank 
Hyndman ( Mangelia Trevelliana). Jeffreys considers that the specimens 
there obtained were glacial fossils. The species is entirely northern.] 
Marg-inella laevis, Donovan. 
“MagilUgan, Co. Londonderry, G. C. Hyndman "-Thompson (sub Rato 
lewis). 
Cypreea Europsea, Montagu. 
Generally diffused throughout our waters, living m from about 0 to 20 
fathoms. In a dead state it is thrown up on most sandy beaches, and was 
dredged in up to 100 fathoms depth near the Maidens. The pretty and well- 
known shells of this, the only British cowry, are locally called “ Johnnjg 
grots,” which is a corruption of the Scotch name of “ John-o - Groat s 
buckie.” Bulla diaphana, recorded by Thompson as taken in Strang or 
Lough, is the young of the present species before the outer Up is formed. 
TCyprsea moneta. 
“Specimens of this shell have been frequently found on the shore near 
Bangor Co. Down. Although not indigenous, its occurrence may be worm 
noticing, as there is a tradition that a ship engaged in the slave trade was 
wrecked there, and thus the cowries are accounted for” Hyndman. 
the money-cowry of South Africa.] 
Ovula, patula, Pennant. , 
“ A shell of this species, found some years ago on the sandy beach of 
Magilligan, County of Londonderry, by Mrs. B. A. Hyndman of Dublin 
is in the cabinet of Mr. Hyndman, at Belfast "-Thompson. A smgle dead 
specimen dredged by Mr. Waller on the Turbot Bank-Hyndman These 
are the only notes of the occurrence of this curious shell m the North of 1 
land. The Magilligan specimen is in the Belfast Museum. 
