OLIVES. Toe 
As if the spirit of beauty had taken pos- 
session of the Harpinw and permeated them 
through and through, we find the animals them- 
selves, as well as their shells, bright with bands 
and blotches of color. 
There is a resemblance between some of 
the olives and the cone shells, as shown in our 
illustration; yet the differences in the hving 
animals, as well as in the shells themselves, 
place them in distinct families. The Olivide 
are destitute of an epidermis, which is one dit- 
ference, as this characterizes the members of 
the Conidw. Other distinctions mark them, 
yet each have the beautiful shining and pic- 
tured surfaces, as also has the Phasianella, 
the pretty pheasant shell of our engraving. 
