EULIMA. 449 
offspring of inordinate conceit, and the selfish vanity of grati- 
fying, “coite qui cotte,’ the morbid cravings after public 
notoriety. 
EULIMA, Risso. 
This genus shows a still nearer approach to the Muricide 
than Chemnitzia, with which, however, it is closely allied, 
though distinct in several points; the mute rostrum has 
entirely disappeared, the tentacula are short, conically taper- 
ing to a point, and not flat, triangular, auriform and folded 
as in that genus; they have less basal coalition, and the eyes, 
though fixed at their bases, are less imternal, being exactly 
medial. Both genera have the proboscis strictly “ recon- 
denda,” with a very long unarmed lingual riband. The ana- 
tomy of the minute Chemnitzie is, I believe, unknown ; there- 
fore a comparison cannot be made with Hulima; we only 
mention, that in it there is an excessively long vas deferens or 
epididymis, as in Murex undatus. We have dissected many of 
the L. polita, but never found in the proboscis, or lingual riband, 
the least appearance of spinous processes. It is probable that 
the buccal apparatus of all the Chemnitzie is destitute of 
the spmous tongue. The conchological alliance of this genus 
with Chemnitzia is excellent, as it has the same inversion of 
the apical volutions. What has been mistaken for the mentum 
by some authors,—not by Loven, who does not mention such 
an organ in Hulima,—is an integral part of the disk of the 
foot, which, in the adult animals of EF. poliéa, is always marked 
with bright orange-coloured segments of a circle, and is the 
usual labium that divides the upper skin of the anterior 
portion of the foot from the sole. I have not only seen but 
dissected the retractile proboscis of Eulima, which is very 
similar to that of Chemnitzia; it consists of two retractile 
tubes, an inner and an outer one, as in Murex undatus. 
Though the long flat tongue appears quite smooth, there is, 
nevertheless, in the inner cylinder, the appearance of a sha- 
greened, roughened portion, which may be tantamount to the 
denticular apparatus of the mner tube of the M. undatus. 
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