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CHAPTEE XXXII. 



NO BRITISH CONES. — CHARACTERS, HABITS, AND SPECIES OF MANGELIA. 



CONIDJE. Genus MANGELIA. 



The Cones love warmer climes than ours; not a single 

 specimen crawls on our beaches, or hides among our sea- 

 weeds, or gladdens our eyes with its glowing tints and bril- 

 liant markings. The MangelicB however are a very pretty 

 little race, which claim a certain relationship with the miss- 

 ing genus, and which, with the PleurofomcB, are thought 

 to form a group, having characters in common sufficient to 

 unite them in family bonds with the true Cones. 



At first sight, this association would appear forced and 

 inconvenient, for the shells of Mangelia are scarcely conical : 

 they are fusiform, all having produced spires, and most of 

 them distinct canals. In common with the Cones and the 

 FleurotomcBf they have a sinus at the hinder or upper union 



