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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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having- the inter-spaces finely spirally striated ; the nucleus of the 
shell, like that of a voluta^ is maminillary. 
86. Mitra scutulata, Lam. Hist. vii. 314. 
Voluta Scutulata sue discolor, Chemn. Conch, x. Gmel. 3452. 
Icon. Chemn. 1. c. t. 151. f. 1428, 1429. 
Lamarck never having- seen this shell has described it on the 
authority of Chemnitz, whose figure agrees very well with the shell 
before me ; excepting that the spots round the suture form nearly a 
continual band at a little distance from it ; the outer lip is smooth 
and thin ; the inside dull livid brown ; the axis is fourteen-twelfths, 
the diameter seven-twelfths, of an inch. ^ 
87. Marginella minuta, (n. s.) 
Testa minuta ovata fusiformis alba politay spira. conoidea 
obtusiusculd, labro injiexo, columella quadriplicatd. 
Icon. 
Shell ovate, fusiform, white, polished; spire conical, nearly as 
long as the aperture, rather blunt ; outer lip somewhat indexed ; 
columella with four distinct plaits ; axis three-twelfths, diameter 
two-twelfths of an inch. 
88. Strombus tlicatus, Lam. Hist. vii. 210. 
Strombus dentatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 3519. 
Icon. Rumph. Mus. t. 37. f. T. Pet, Amb, t. 14. f. 21. 
Schroet. Einl. in Conch, i. t. 2. f. 12. Ency, Mcth. t. 408. 
f. 2. a. b. 
89. STROaiBUS URCEus, Lin. Gmel. 3518. 
Icon. Lister. Conch, t. 857. f. 13. MaHini, Conch, iii. t. 78. 
f. 803—806. 
90. Strombus Australis, (n. s.) 
Testa ovato-oblonga tuberculata spiraliter sulcata albida 
fusco-variegata, spird exserid, caudd recurvd, labro in- 
crassato poster iks lobo digiti-formi terminate intks (roseo?) 
sulcato. 
Icon. ? 
