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spines of an Echinus at Cullercoats, but rather injured, and in 

 a very sickly state. We placed it in a glass of fresh sea-water, 

 hoping that it might recover, and display itself more distinctly ; 

 but in this we were disappointed, as it soon died, and being left 

 unlooked at for a while had partially decayed. The animal was 

 white, had a rather large foot, without operculum, and a rounded 

 head with two cylindrical tentacles, and minute eyes at the (ex- 

 ternal or posterior) base. No portion of the shell was covered 

 by the fleshy parts, but we are not prepared to say that, in a 

 state of vigour, the animal has not the power of extending some 

 part of the mantle or foot over it. In these particulars it does not 

 diflFer much from the Sti/lifer described by Mr. A. Adams, from 

 the coast of Borneo; but we cannot agree Avith Mr. Gray in plac- 

 ing this genus in the family Naticidce, as the very large and pe- 

 culiar disc in front of the head in Natica is entirely wanting 

 here. The animal has much more the appearance of an Eulima.* 

 The remains of the animal examined under a microscope did not 

 show any denticulated tongue. 



45. EULIMA, Risso. 

 1. E. DISTORTA, Desk. 



Eulima distorta, Phil. Enum. Moll. Sic. ii. 135. 



A beautiful fresh specimen of this interesting little shell was 

 got at Whitburn by the Rev. G. C. Abbes. 



The animal has two long subulate tentacles, with very large 

 eyes at their posterior base ; the foot is slender, much produced 

 in front, and has a bilobed flap (the vientum of Loven) on its 

 upper surface. The body is yellow, beautifully variegated with 

 carmine, which forms an irregular band on each side ; the ten- 

 tacles and foot, white. These are the prevailing colours of the 

 genus, but the disposition of them is different in different spe- 

 cies, and appears to be sixfficiently permanent to be taken as a 

 specific character. In E. politct the animal is white, excepting 



* " Eulima. Animal proboscide longa prseditum recondenda; lingua in- 

 ermis ? ^''■—Loven, Index Moll. Scand. Mr. Broderip states that Stylifer has a 

 retractile proboscis, and the Stylifer subulatus, Brod., figured in Sowerby's 

 Genera of Siiells, greatly resembles an Eulima. 



