3G TESTACEA. 



Shell brownish, orifice wide, with a whorl originating on the side. 

 Animal a Limax, tentacula two, with a black eye at the exterior root of 

 each ; sole long, extremity rounded ; extent of the animal nine lines. 

 Marine, pelagic ; survives readily in confinement ; rare. 



Plate VII. 



Fig. 13. Veluiina Icvvigata ; shell. 

 14. Animal under surface. 



Cypr.ea EtJROPEA.— Plate VII, Fig 15, IG, 17, 18. 



The shell of no animal is more common as a subject of curiosity in 

 tliLs country, from the largest to the srrfallest species, whether foreign or 

 domestic ; yet no animal is less understood, or has been more rarely seen 

 and described, than its inmate. 



It is one example also, that, however abundant such creatures may 

 be in their native haunts, they are found rare to us, desiring to obtain 

 them alive, and to render them the subjects of observation. 



The transitions of the animal tribes to each other, skilfully shewn in 

 their anatomical structure by distinguished authors, are overpassed by 

 those less sensible of the wonderful construction of the living frame, and 

 who confine themselves to the stud}' of living creatures exclusively. 



Length of the shell half an inch ; figure approaching an ovoid, 

 deprived of the usual opening, in place of which is a wide longitu- 

 dinal fissure, occupied by its tenant. The whole surface is finely indented 

 by grooves, penetrating the edges of the fissure. Colour whitish ; surface 

 resembling porcelain. 



The tenant of the shell is a yellow Limax, of remarkable dimensions 

 compared with the size of its dwelling, extending an inch and an eighth, 

 or above twice its length. Head terminated by a syphon or snout, fold- 

 ing longitudinally ; sole very large, with a rounded extremity. Two taper, 

 rather slender, long tentacula, having a black eye externally on the base 

 of each, are in front. A dark cloak, unseen when the animal is in retreat, 

 diffuses around the body as it issues from the fissure, and during its motion 

 gradually s])reads over the whole shell. It is somewhat gelatinous appa- 



