EUGENIACRINITES. 



EUMORPHUS. 



G30 



Silver 

 Copper 



Earthy Matter 

 Carbonic Acid and los* 



E. acria, Wild Clove, is a native of the West India Islands. It is 

 arborescent and glabrous ; the young branches acutely 4-angled, the 

 leaves elliptic oval, obtuse, more or less convex coriaceous, very 

 glabrous, the upper side reticulated with elevated veins, finely pellucid, 

 dotted ; the peduncles are compressed, axillary, and terminal, tricho- 

 tomous, corymbose, rather longer than the leaves. The calyx-limb 

 5-partite; segments roundish, the style filiform, acute, the berry 

 globose, 1-4 seeded. This species is sometimes confounded with the 

 former species, in whose qualities it participates. E. caulijiora, the 

 Jabutieaba or jaboticaburas, is one of the most agreeable fruits in 

 Brazil, and the taste will be improved by future culture. Very good 

 wine, syrup, &c., are made of it E. dysenteric*, E. MicltelHi, and E. Braxili- 

 entis, called respectively Aracea, Pitauga, Grumixameira, Cambuy, 

 Uvaltra, Pitangueira, &c., are all spoken of by Martius as excellent 

 dessert fruits. The Rose-Apples of the East are produced by species 

 of this genus. 



EUGENIACRINITES (Goldfuss), a genus of Fossil Crinoidea. 

 [ENCBINITES.] 



EU'GNAf HUS, a genus of Fossil Pacoid Fishes, from the Lias, of 

 which there are thirteen British species. (Agassiz.) 



EUKAIRITE, a Mineral consisting of seleniuret of silver and 

 copper, discovered by Berzelius. It occurs in thin films of a shining 

 lead colour ; opaque ; its texture is granular. It yields readily to the 

 knife, and acquires a silvery lustre. It occurs in a copper mine 

 in Sweden. Before the blow-pipe it exhales a strong smell of 

 selenium ; and with charcoal fuses into a brittle metallic globule. It 

 consist* of 



. 26 



. . 38-83 

 . 23-05 

 . . 8-90 

 . 3-12 

 100 



EULABES. [CORACIAS.] 



EULA'LIA, a genus established by Saviguy, and placed by Cuvier 

 among his Dorsibranchiate Annelide*. 



EU'LIMA, a genus of marine Gosteropodous ilulimca, established 

 by M. Bisso. 



Shell turreted, acuminated, polished, with many whorls ; aperture 

 ovate, acuminated posteriorly ; external lip thickened, generally 

 forming numerous obsolete varice*. Operculum horny, thin, its 

 nucleus anterior. 



Mr. G. B. Sowerby, who gives this generic character, says ('Zool. 

 Proc.,' 1834) that this genus of marine shells appears to be most 

 nearly related to PyramideUa and Riaoa. A species, he adds, which 

 ha* been long known has had the appellation of Turbo j>olitus among 

 British Linnean writers ; and a fossil species has been placed by 

 I,.uu;in k among the Jialini, under the specific name of B. tertlttllat in. 

 Mr. Sowerby separates the genus into the two divisions below stated, 

 which are characterised by the two species above mentioned ; one has 

 a solid colutnella, and the other is deeply umbilicated. All the 

 species, he observes, are remarkable for a brilliant polish externally, 

 and the shells are frequently slightly and somewhat irregularly 

 twisted, apparently in consequence of the very obsolete varicea 

 following each other in an irregular line, principally on one side, from 

 the apex towards the aperture. He describes sixteen species, chiefly 

 from Mr. Cuming's collection. 



The geographical distribution of this genus is wide ; they have 

 been principally found, as yet, in warm seas (South and Central America 

 and Pacific Ocean, Australia). Messrs. Forbes and Hanley record four 

 British species E. polita, E. dutorla, E. subula/a, and E. trilineata. 



The species found by Mr. Cuming were dredged or otherwise 

 collected in sandy mud, coarse sand, and coral sand, on mother-of- 

 pearl shells, or on the reefs; at depths (not including the reefs) 

 ranging from six to thirteen fathoms. 



o. Perforated Eulima'. 



E. tplendidula. Shell acuminate-pyramidal, brownish, articulated 

 with white and chestnut near the sutures; umbilicus large; aper- 

 ture angnlated anteriorly. Length 1-45, breadth 0'6 inches. Loca- 

 lity, St. Elena, South America. Mr. Cuming dredged a single 

 specimen in sandy mud at from six to eight fathoms depth. 



ulima iplrndidiila. 



J3. Imperforated Eidimte, 



E. major. Shell acuminate-pyramidal, opaque, milk-white; external 

 lip subarcuated. Length 1'6 inches, breadth 0'4. Locality, the 

 Island of Tahiti. The largest specimen was found in coral sand on 

 the reefs. 



Eiilima itifijur. 



Fossil species are found in the Calcaire Grossier near Paris. 



EULIMELLA, a genus of Mollutea belonging to the family Pi/ra- 



llida, founded by E. Forbes, to receive, forms that had been 

 previously referred to Eulima and Odostomia. The shell is elongated, 

 and consists of many whorls, solid, smooth, and polished ; the apex 

 of the spine has a persistent embryonic sinistral shell ; the aperture 

 subquadrate ; peristome imcomplete ; columella not plicated, straight 

 or nearly so ; operculum corneous, pyrifom. There are four British 

 species. E. ecilhe (Eulima crasiula, Jeffreys), E. aeicula (Mdaniu, 

 aeicula, Philippi), E. affinis (Eulima affinis, Philippi), E. clarttla 

 (Turbinella clavida, Loveu). 



EULO'PHIA (from tl, and KA^o?, a crest), a genus of Plants 

 belonging to the natural order Orchidaeece. It has an open spreading 

 perianth ; the sepals and petals ascending, nearly equal, either quite 

 distinct, or united with the more or less lengthened base of the 

 column ; the lip horned or shortly spurred, sessile, with the veins 

 crested, bearded, or quite smooth, usually 3 -lobed, sometimes undi- 

 vided ; the column half-terete, edged ; the anther terminal, opereular ; 

 the pollen masses 2, waxy, 2-lobed, or hollowed out at the back, with 

 a short linear caudicula, and a transverse gland. The species are 

 terrestrial plants, with pseudo-bulbous rhizomata, long membranous 

 plaited leaves, and radical many-flowered scapes. Moat of the rhizo- 

 mata and roots of the species of the family Orchidaeece yield starch in 

 a peculiar form. The roots of the species of Orchis are used in Europe 

 under the name of Salop as an article of diet, and the same use is made 

 of the rhizomata of a species of Eulophia in the East Indies. Although 

 specimens of the plant were brought from Cashmere by Dr. Royle, 

 they were not in a state of preservation to be identified. (Lindley, 

 Flora Medico.) 



EULYMENE. [ACALEPHA] 



EUME'DONUS, a genus of Brachyurous Crustaceans, the first of 

 the Partheuopians of M. Milne-Edwards, and which in. his opinion 

 establish in some sort the passage between the Stenorhynchi, Aclicens, 

 on the one side, and Eurynome, Lamltrua, and Parthenope on the other. 

 The form of the carapace is nearly pentagonal as in the latter, but it 

 is at the same time thrown forwards, as it were, and scarcely over- 

 passea the line of the feet] of the hind pair of limbs a disposition 

 which recalls the construction of the former. The body is depressed ; 

 the rostrum, which is very large and projecting, is only divided 

 towards its extremity ; the eyes are very short, and their peduncle 

 entirely fills the orbits, which are circular a character which again 

 approximates these crustaceans to the Stenorhynchi ; the internal 

 antenna; are folded back very obliquely outwards, and the external 

 antenmc are but little developed. The epistome is shorter than in 

 the majority of the Oxyrhynchi. The external jaw-feet present 

 nothing remarkable. In the male the thoracic feet of the first pair 

 are large, and much longer than the rest ; all these are a little com- 

 pressed, and their third joint is surmounted by a crest, which is not 

 distinctly perceptible on the other joints ; the feet of the second pair 

 are rather shorter than those of the third and fifth pair, which are 

 nearly as long as the fourth. The abdomen of the male is composed 

 of seven articulations. 



E. niger. This small species, the only one known, is of a bronzed 

 black colour, and inhabits the coasts of China. 



EUMORPHUS, a genus of Coleopterous Insects belonging to the 

 section Trimeri of Latreille, and being the typical genus of the family 

 Funyicola. These insects are characterised by having the antenna) 

 longer than the head and thorax, the body oval, and the thorax 

 irregularly square ; the maxillary palpi filiform, or slightly thickened 

 at the end, but not terminated by a large process as in some genera : 

 the last joint of the tarsus is always deeply divided into two lobes. 



Latreille (' Regne Animal') divides the genus Eumorphtm into 

 several sub-genera. Some of the species have the third joint of the 

 antenna! much longer than any of the other joints; these form the 

 genus Eumorptlua (proper), in which tha antennas are club shaped. 

 All the species are natives of America or the East Indies. Ex. 

 Eumorphui immarciinatus. (Latr.. ' Ueuer. Crust, et Insect.,' tab. xi. 

 6g. 12.) 



