84 CYPRyEA. 



proposed to the attention of naturalists, withoyt 

 attempting to account for the fact adverted to. 



The Cyprsege live deeply buried in the sand, from 

 whence it is said, at the full moon and during its 

 increase, these little lunatics, for such they have 

 been already proved, crawl forth to expatiate upon 

 the rocks, and leave there their shells for the 

 benefit and instruction of Conchologists. 



To the Cyprian Goddess this genus, including 

 certainly some of the most beautiful of species, is 

 very fitly, but, as to its orthography, very ill in- 

 scribed. Fi'om the original Kucr^/o? will come 

 Cypria, but not Cypraea. 



