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were taken by the trawl, near the Eddistone Light-house. 
Mr. Dillwyn observes, that Gronovius consideied this spe¬ 
cies as British, and that Montagu had informed him, a spe¬ 
cimen had been taken somewhere in Scotland ; but no no¬ 
tice is taken of it in his writings, or by any conchologist of 
that country, v. v. 
We have retained Gmelin’s specific name, both as his 
work is in general use, and as it has been adopted by Shaw 
and Chemnitz. 
Solen diclivis. p. 164. 
Lister in his notes has the following remark: “This shell 
seems to be Chamous, or naturally open at both ends ; it 
hath a ridge or depressed sinus at the end, where the hmg£ 
is, otherwise it is equally obtuse and broad at both ends, 
notunlike the Solen kind, among which it might be placed ; 
it is thin and hollow and of a brown color. I never saw 
but this one pair of them in Mr. C's ( Charltons) cabinet. 
From the Mediterranean sea.” 
Turbo elegantissimus. p. 209. 
Turbo acutus. Donovan , pi. 179. f. 1. 
p. 6.1. 4, from the bottom, after shell thick, read or¬ 
bicular. 
p. 23. 1. 16, for outer-lip, read pillar-lip. 
p. 82. 1 . 1 , erase , beaks large, prominent, quite cen¬ 
tral. 
p. 93, for Montagu , pi. 263, read p. 263. 
p. 126.1. 14, for Turbo canalis, read Turbo Lacuna, 
p. 136.1. 32, for Da Costa , pi. 3, read pi. 8. 
p. 174.1. 4, erase, one of the valves more convexthan 
the other. 
p. 221, 1. 8, from the bottom, for the tenth of a line, 
read the tenth of an inch, 
p. 239, 1. 11, from the bottom, add iValker , f. 82. 
By an unavoidable accident, the drawings of the follow¬ 
ing figures did not reach us till it was too late to refer to 
them in the letter-press. They may easily be added with a 
pen or a pencil. 
Area minuta. Minute Arh. Fig. 98. 
Buccinuin carinatum. Carhiated Whelk. Fig. 94. 
Jjelix ianthina. Blue Snail-shell. Fig. 96. 
Murex 
