BULL1D.E. 409 



has the precedence. Our shell varies in thinness, in 

 comparative length and breadth, and in the turgidity of 

 the body-whorl. 0. carnea is not uncommon in the 

 Mediterranean; the young is probably Risso's Simnia 

 nicceensis. 



Order IV. PLEUROBRANCHIATA, Gray. 

 (See Vol. III. p. 200.) 



In the same year that Dr. Gray proposed the name 

 which I have adopted for this order, Professor Loven pub- 

 lished another name, viz. Pomatobranchia. I now place 

 it immediately after the Siphonobranchiata, and post- 

 pone the Pulmonobranchiata (as being more perfect 

 Gastropods) not only to the present order, but also to 

 the Nudibranchiata and Pellibranchiata. I accidentally 

 omitted in page 265 " Order III. SIPHONOBRAN- 

 CHIATA." The families Cerithiopsidee to Cyprmda 

 inclusive belong to the last-named order ; and the num- 

 bers prefixed to them (viz. XXVI. to XXXI.) ought 

 therefore to be I. to VI. 



Family I. BUL'LID^E, {Bulladw) Clark. 



Body gelatinous, generally divided into separate parts or 

 lobes, and not always containable within the shell : head 

 snout-shaped : tentacles either united and forming a hood or 

 head-veil, or consisting of two distinct and broad lappets : 

 eyes, when present, sessile or subcutaneous, at the base of the 

 tentacles or at the sides of the head : foot usually large, some- 

 times expanded on each side, like fins (epipodia) which serve 

 for swimming, as well as behind into a single lobe (rneta- 

 podium), so as to cover the crown or apex of the shell : gills 

 forming a single triangular plume, which is placed across the 

 back on the right side, and protected by the shell : r/izzard 

 peculiar to most (if not all) genera, and composed of several 



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