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192 The Hifiory «/ ANIMALS. 
Cochlea albida , depreffa, ore fubrotundo labiato et dentato. 
The whiti/h , deprejfed Cochlea , with a roundifi, labiated , dentated 
mouth .. 
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This is a very lingular fpecies; it’s breadth is about half an inch, and it’s height or 
thicknefs rot more than a third of an inch : it confids of three or four volutions and 
the clavicle terminates obmfely, and is not at all elated : the mouth is fituated on the 
under part of the fhell, and is more than a quarter of an inch in length, and aimed: as 
much in breadth, being of a figure nearly rounded ; it has a fomew^atbroad lip of a 
pearly white colour, and is llightly dentated on each fide : the colour of the whole fhell 
is white, without any variegation. 
We have it in Charlton-foreft in Sufifex, elfewhere I have not feen it livinp- 5 but I 
have fpecimens of it from Italy, where it is frequent. 03 
Cachlea deprejfa cornea fafeiata. 
The horn-coloured , depreffed , fafeiated Cochlea . 
This is an extreamly elegant fpecies j it is an inch and a half in diameter, but fo 
very much depreffed or flatted, that it’s utmod height or thicknefs is not half an inch : 
it con fills of three or four volutions j the outer one confiderably large, the others 
fmaller in proportion, as they approach the center: the clavicle is fcarce at all elevated, 
and terminates obtufely : the mouth is rounded, but in part filletj up with the fuc- 
ceeding volution of the fhell : the ground colour of the fhell is a pale brown, and the 
other white, having much the appearance of a ribband, whence the name of the 
fhell. 
We have not this fpecies a native with us, but it is fent frequently from Jamaica, 
where it is common. 
Cochlea albida , deprejfa, ore expanfo labiato et prof unde dentate . 
The white , depreffed Cochlea^ with a wide , labiated , and deeply dentated 
mouth. 
This is a very lingular and a very elegant fpecies; it is about an inch and a quarter 
in diameter, and a third of an inch, or little more, in thicknefs: it confids of four 
elegant volutions, and the clavicle is not at all elevated, but terminates obtufely : the 
colour is white, but there runs an orange-coloured fafeia along all the volutions in moft 
of the fpecimens, but in fome this is wanting. The mod extraordinary circumdance 
in this fpecies is the mouth, which is not a fimple opening, terminating the lad volution 
of the fhell, as in the others, but is placed tranfverfely, and has a very large and broad 
lip, covering on the lower part two or three volutions of the fhell, and elegantly and 
deeply dentated on both fides. 
This is an American fpecies; we have it principally from Jamaica, 
BUCCIN A, TRUMPET SHELLS. 
Buccinum flavefeens ore rotunda minore. 
Theyellow ^ land Buccinum^ with a rounds [mall mouth. 
np h 1 s is a fpecies of no great beauty, but very fingular in it’s form ; it is about 
§ three quarters of an inch in height, and iefs than half an inch in diameter 
in the larged part: the body of the fhell is of an oval figure ■ and the mouth, which 
is continued from it’s extremity by a kind of neck, is fmali and perfectly round : the 
clavicle has four volutions, and terminates obtufely ; the colour of the whole fhell is a 
dufky yellow. 
It is very frequent in the woods in Germany, and in fome other parts of Europe, 
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Buccinum 
