166 GLOSSARY. 
Cartistdna, after a Carthusian monastery. 
_castdénea, chestnut-coloured. 
celléria, inhabiting cellars. 
Céphata, the class of mollusks with heads. 
‘cerina, wax-coloured (z.e. yellow). 
_-cincta, girdled. 
_-cinérea, ash-coloured. 
cinéreo-niger, dark ash-colour. 
circumscriptus, trimmed round. 
Claustlia, the name of the genus with an appendage called 
a claustlium or door. 
_Cochlicopa, a shell with a notch. 
colubrina, resembling an adder. 
columélla, a small column; the technical term for the axzs 
of a univalve. 
compacta, compact. 
complandius, flattened. 
compréssa, compressed. 
concave, hollow. 
concentric, having the same centre. 
Conchology. ‘Conchology treats of the mollusca, or that 
great division of invertebrate animals which have soft 
bodies and an organization superior to that of insects. 
and only inferior to that of fishes.” 
concinna, neat. 
conica, conical. 
conoidea, cone-like. 
contécta, covered. 
