26 POPULAR BRITISH CONCHOLOGY. 



other towns on the South Devon coast ; but its extreme fra- 

 gility renders its safe extraction, and subsequent removal of 

 animal matter, a work of very delicate manipulation/' Con- 

 sidering the similitude of the young shell to that of most of 

 the PJiolades, and the great variety of means by which the 

 species of the family enclose and protect their shells, it may 

 reasonably be questioned whether it is worth while to make 

 a separate genus of the cup-making F/iolas. 



