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This is about an inch in length, and three quarters of an inch in diameter in the 
largeft part, which is not at the end, but nearer the middle : the clavicle is moderately 
loner, and has three or four volutions: the oppofue extremity is a little fplit by the 
mouth; the furface of the body is elegantly ornamented with oblong and moderately 
large tubercles, difpofed in feveral fpiral feries ; there are ufually fix or leven feries of 
them; thefe are ufually black, which on the paler ground of the fhell have a very 
beautiful effeCt. o 
It is brought to us from the coaft of the Mediterranean. 
Dolium bullatum roflro brevi adunco . ' ' 3 EI )t 
The bullaied Dolium^ with a Jhort, crooked beak. 
This is about two inches in length, and an inch and a half in diameter in the 
breadeft part ; the body of the fhell is of a rounded figure : the clavicle is moderately 
long, and has about four volutions; the mouth is long, and. is terminated, at the lower 
end of the fhell, by a Sort, thick, and fomewhat crooked beak : the body of the 
fhell is elegantly ornamented with a number of bullated protuberances, round, mode¬ 
rately large, and refembling pearls j they are difpofed in regular feries in a fpiral form, 
and there are ufually five of thofe feries on the body of the fhell, and one of a 
fmalier, furrounding the lowed: volution of the clavicle : the mouth is large and den- 
tated ; the general colour of the fhell is yellow, but the tubercles are fomewhat paler 
than the reft. 
It is brought to us from the Eaft and Weft Indies, and is a very elegant fhell. 
The other fpecies of the Dolium are, i. The round, thin, umbilicated Dolium; 
2. The white-furrowed Dolium, with yellow ftreaks. 3. The yellow-furrowed Do¬ 
lium, with fpotted ftreaks. 4. The white, thick, furrowed Dolium, with dentated 
lips. 5. The ftriated and fpotted Dolium, with a rugofe columella. 6. The oblong, 
yellow Dolium, with a deprefted clavicle. 7. The oblong, white Dolium, with a de- 
prefled clavicle. ,8. The fmooth, oblong, brown Dolium, with a deprefted clavicle. 
9. The oblong, variegated Dolium, with a deprefted clavicle. 10. The variegated, 
confabulated Dolium, with a longer clavicle. 11. The oblong, collated, and umbo- 
mted, brown Dolium. 12. The elegant Dolium, with thirteen , bright, red ribs. 
33. The reddifh, oblong Dolium, with fourteen narrow ribs. 14. The broad-ribbed, 
yellow and brown Dolium; the four laft are called by our collectors Harp-fhells. 15. 
The elegant, umbonated Dolium; called the Perfian-fhell, or the Panama purpura. 
16. The fmooth Perfian-fhell, with white lines. 17. The ftriated Dolium, with 
brown and white fpots. 18. The Dolium, with an oblong and fomewhat crooked 
roftrum, called the Fig-fhell, with the deprefted clavicle. 1 9. The roftrated Dolium, 
with a beautiful amethyftine tinge, called the Turnip-fhell. 20. The long-beaked, 
ftriated, yellow Dolium. 21. The thick, yellow Dolium, with lines and fpots irre¬ 
gularly difpofed. 22. The white Dolium, with lines and fpots of brown, mor^e regu¬ 
larly diftributed over it. 23. The grey, thick Dolium, called the Boat-fheli and Sea- 
nut. 24. The oblong, greenifh Dolium, 25. The oblong, reddifh Dolium. 26. 
The thin, white, papyraceous Dolium. 27. The yellowifh Dolium, with four browa 
fafeiae. 28. The capillaceoufly, ftriated Dolium. 29. The white boat Dolium, um¬ 
bilicated on each fide. 30. The blue, fafeiated, round Dolium, yellow within, 31. 
The greenifh, or olive-coloured, round Dolium. 
PORCELLANA. 
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1 j 'HE Porcellana is a Ample fhell, without any hinge, formed of one piece, and 
j[ of a gibbofe figure on the back; the mouth is long, narrow, and dentated on 
each fide. 
The animal inhabiting this fhell is a lima* 
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