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Montagu, the Red Lasaea. As the name indicates, 
it is reddish brown in color. This shell is found 
living on the coast of England, as well as on this 
coast. It loves to hide in the roots of small sea- 
weeds and in cracks of the rocks. Jeffreys says it 
is Viviparous, and lives as much out of the sea as 
in it. 
Another little creature that lives on the shores 
of the Atlantic and the Pacific is Turtonia minita, 
Fabr., which the naturalist, Rev. J. G. Wood, calls 
the Little Mullet-shell, because it is often found 
in the stomachs of mullets. He advises all zodlo- 
gists to examine the stomachs of such fishes as they 
ean obtain, since they often contain objects of much 
interest. ‘‘This little shell,’’ says he, ‘‘is about the 
size of a capital O, is exceedingly thin, purple- 
brown in hue, dark at the beak. It may be found 
by looking among the roots of corallines and other 
Algae.’’ On our side of the world it lives on the 
coast of northern Alaska. 
Turtonia occidentalis, Dall, the Western Mullet- 
shell, also lives in Bering Strait and northward. 
It is said to be larger, stouter, and shorter than 
the last species. 
We now come to the great suborder Lucinacea, 
named from Lucina, one of the titles of the goddess 
Juno, in heathen mythology. The shells internally 
are marked with one very long and narrow mus- 
cle-sear, while the other is nearly round. The pal- 
lial line which joins them has no sinus. 
