18 HOW AND WHERE THE MONEY-SHELL LIVES. 



house near the smaller opening. Eyes it has 

 none, nor any long tentacles or fishing-arms. 

 The blood is red, sexes united, and the breathing 

 organs a symmetrical pair. 



The food of these molluscs appears to be strictly 

 of an animal character. Living, as I shall further 

 on explain, in the sand, they wage war on and 

 continually devour small bivalves, foraminifera, 

 or any small marine zoophyte that an unlucky 

 destiny may chance to wash within reach of these 

 submarine cannibals. 



The habit of the animal is to burrow in the sand, 

 the small end of the shell being invariably down- 

 wards, to live in water from four to eight fathoms 

 in depth, and always to choose a sheltered har- 

 bour or arm of the sea as its haunt. The large 

 end of the shell placed close to the surface of the 

 sand, allows the animal free scope to seize upon 

 any unsuspicious wanderer that prowls near it. 



The dentalium I now more particularly allude 

 to has been recently described by Dr. Baird, in a 

 paper read before -the Zoological Society, with 

 notes on its habits and monetary value, appended 

 by myself: 



4 Amongst the objects of Natural History and 

 Ethnology brought from Vancouver Island and 

 British Columbia by Mr. Lord, is a belt composed 



