. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. ( 44 ) rsjTwetity-eigbt exotic Infefls, chiefly Carabi^yJ^w a/"/fow rare- — ~ iQj6 Fourteen various ColeoptercE of the Genus Biipreftis, Lucanus,,and DytlfcuV &c. fo77ie labelled 1037 Thirty-fix fpecies of Ape? and Mufca?, chic% from Africa^ lahclled 1038 Nine curious
. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... Sundays, and the 5th of June ... excepted ... Zoological specimens; Art objects; Mollusks. ( 44 ) rsjTwetity-eigbt exotic Infefls, chiefly Carabi^yJ^w a/"/fow rare- — ~ iQj6 Fourteen various ColeoptercE of the Genus Biipreftis, Lucanus,,and DytlfcuV &c. fo77ie labelled 1037 Thirty-fix fpecies of Ape? and Mufca?, chic% from Africa^ lahclled 1038 Nine curious fpecies of Grylli, among which are Carolinus, fhivus, and others,, chielly from Guinea io3() Twenty-two beautiful exotic Phalcnc?, &c. chieiiy from Africa aud the Brazlh--^ Twenty-three fine exotic 'iliones, among which are Laomcdia, terplicore,. li,. viol^, cnmcena, portia, & dorcas, Fahr-, 2-;c,. J- J 041 1042 :o43. 1049 1050 1051 10^3 J054 IOS5, 1056 T057 1053 CURIOUS SHELL S, Three fine varieties of Bulla achatina, L,. two (ihe broad ftnped Zebra land Snail) from Guinea, and one from the Kajl Indies A piece of red Coral, with an Anomia truncata (i.) adhering, one of the fame kind of Anomia detached, and a fcarce Mytikis found lodged in the fame piece of Coral Tv/o-fine fpccimens of Buceinum ligatum, S. a curious and new fpecies, from Ne'M Soulh Walrs, very rare, Martyn, Vul. 11. Jig. ~ Nine fine fpecies of VenuSj,viz, meroe, literata, Penfylvanica, L. polita, i'. & A beautiful variety of Helix perverfa, L, and 2 other rare Flelices, i//?. 16. 11»- . A pair of fine Conus Augur, S, or dotted Cone, Knorr. Vli tab. 13. 6^ 'very rare A Medrepora fungites, the hollow of which is filled'with a number of a curious Spondylus plicatus, L.—a mofiJiugular fpecimen Cardinal CarJiflit, L. and impreffum, S. 2 curious fpecies of the Venus's Heart Cockle, very rare Two Turbo Delphinus, ?.nd 2 Pagodus, L. all fine Cardium unedo, L. and Erythordon, 5. very fine
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