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characters of these shells very much accord with Buc. recurvirostrum, 
Linn, as figured by Lister, Plate 1016, No. /5. 
These shells were found by Mr. Strange in the sandy hills of Tus- 
cany ; and were introduced, with some other curious fossils, in two 
plates, engraved for him by Antonio Gregorio, from drawings of 
Giuseppe Menaboni. In the description of these plates he designates 
these shells as Buccino-cassides. 
In one of the plates, and under the same designation, is the un- 
common shell represented Plate V. Fig. YJ and 19 . This also was 
found in the Tuscan hills ; and, according to Knorr, it has also been 
found in Piedmont. The last turn of this shell is extremely large, 
when compared with the other four turns. The spire projects but 
very little. The body of the shell is smooth, slight traces of trans- 
verse strife only being observable. The right lip is of considerable 
thickness, and dentated on its inner surface. The left lip is extended 
along the body of the shell, up to the termination of the right lip. 
The aperture in the middle part is oval, but terminates upwards, in a 
considerable groove, which runs between the right lip and the body 
of the shell ; and downwards, in a short reflected canal. A thick 
projecting fold runs up from nearly the middle of the lip, and is in- 
serted into the middle of the next spiral turn. 
Three species have been found in the environs of Paris : C. harpse- 
formis, C. cancellata, and C. carinata. 
The fossil shell, I believe from France, Plate V. Fig. 23, is perhaps 
one of the most singular with respect to its mixture of characters. 
Viewed at its back, it has the general appearance of a shell of the genus 
Harpa ; but in its front, its summit, its long slightly dentated aperture, 
plaited columella, aud widely extended left lip, show its most proper 
place to be under the genus Cassis, notwithstanding that the inferior 
termination of the aperture is that of a buccinum, instead of the short 
reflected canal of cassis ; and that it has the flat broad columella of 
Buccinum patulum, Linn, or Purpura patula, Lam. 
