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 475 APPENDIX. There are to other specimens of this shell in the Museum whiclt do not agree with any that Lamarck describes; olle of these being fourteen-tenths of an inch long, and one inch hih, is double the size of Captain King'8 specimen; its habitation is not marked. but the other specimen is from Ceylon. 10. CYTHRRB& KINGll, (n. 8.) adiata, adi fiaviantib ; iusul& lanccolatoolat ; qbell ovate, heart-shaped, whlto or pale brown, with darker brown ray, each formed of several narrow lines, the umbone white, the edge quite entire; the lnnule hnceolal hert,-slped, defined, the centre rather prominent; inside white, the hinge mi rather broad. This hell is very like C/tAera !ta, but differ from it in markings, az well a it outline, which is more orbicular. The specimen given to the Museum by Captain King, is one inch and eight-tenths of an inch high; but ther is another specimen the collection, from the Tankerville cabinet (No. 8), which twice that size. Cythera Gibbia, La Ht. v. Icon. (Aesm. vii. t. 39. f. 415. 416. 1. PBmCOL. ZUBK. ? Cardinto rubrum ? Montague. his shell agrees in general form, teeth, and colour, with the d#m rubrum of Montagu, but it is larger. It wa found imbedded in the sew-weed and spongy-like substance that covers the 13. CaAMA LmBVL, Lard. Hit. vi. 95. This shell may, perhaps, be a variety of CAama grAofdes. 14 RtDAOXA GIGAS, /,am. Hft. vi. pt. 1. 105. Chama Gigas, Cone/. $yft. Nat. i. lco. (,Aemn, vii.t. 49, f. 49. Ency, MtA. pl.,9. f. I.

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