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tally destitute of bands. This course, however, 

 following an inverse law with regard to magnitude, 

 the above remark is simply proposed to the at- 

 tention of naturalists, without attempting to ac- 

 count for the fact adverted to. 



The Cypraeae 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 be- 

 nefit 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. From the original Kvirpw^ will come 

 Cypria or Cyptea, but not Cypraea. 



