500 CYPRiEADiE. 



broad, though scarcely broader than the shell ; its frontal 

 angles are rounded. Posteriorly it exceeds the length of 

 the shell by a third of the length of the animal ; it is flat- 

 tened above caudally, and shows a whitish central line and 

 radiating lateral streaks : the extremity is obtuse. This 

 creature is active and not shy ; when at rest it puckers its 

 mantle. 



It is essentially a southern and western species. We 

 have dredged it alive in the crevices of Alcyonium off the 

 Land's End in twenty fiithoms water (E. F. and R. 

 M 'Andrew) ; Exmouth (Clark) ; Plymouth (Barlee) ; 

 Birterbuy Bay, and Arran in Ireland (Barlee) ; " Ma- 

 gilligan in Londonderry [Mrs. R. A. Hyndman] ^ 

 (Thompson). 



It ranges to the Mediterranean. 



? ACUMINATA, Bruguicrc. 



Minute, extremely narrow ; mouth contracted above, broadly 

 and very bbintly rounded below ; pillar curving to the left. 



Plate CXIV. B. fig. 3. 



Plancus, Conch. Minus Notis, p. 2, art. ] , the unfigured var. 

 — SoLDANi, Testaceog. pi. 10, f. 62, II. fossil. 



Bulla acuminata, Brug. (not Sow. Min. Conch.). Encycl. Meth. Vers, vol. i. 

 p. 376. — Jeffreys, Ann. Nat. vol. xix. p. 310. — Bosc, 

 Hist. Nat. Coquijles, vol. iv. p. G8. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. 

 vol. i. p. 122, pl.7, f. 18, and vol. ii. p. 96. — Grateloup, Sur 

 les Bu]leens,pp. 27, 63, f. 43, 44 (from Bull. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 vol. ix.).— S. Wood, Crag Moll. p. 174, pi. 21, f. 7. 



Cyliehna „ Lov^n, Index Moll. Scand. p. 10 (no description). 



Bulla (^Volvula) acunmrnta, A. Adams, Sow. Thesaur. Conch, vol. ii. p. 596, 

 pi. 125, f. 152. 



This minute shell has a narrow oblong-fusiform shape, 

 being attenuated at both extremities, though very un- 

 equally so, since it is most sharply acuminated above, but 



