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had abolished the constitutional government of Portuc.il, 

 and proclaimed himself absolute king.Tereeira declai 

 Donna M.um : and, in 1H2, a large fleet and army gent 

 by Dun MiiriH-I lor the rn:n|;u^l of the island were re- 

 I with great loss from the town of Pray a. In ls;tl 

 the other elands of the group were recovered for Donna 

 ; by a small number of troops sent there from Ter- 

 ceira. 



(Ashe'8 History of tht Azores or 1l',-*ti-rn AAim/v , Von 

 Buch's Phytikalische Betcnreibimg tier Canaritchen In- 

 Fowler's Journal of a Tun- in the iftnlf <>f 



' 



}''>rk, nml Rfturn to I'.n slund Inj Ihr H'rxti'rii ll,imis ; 

 Hold's Drttrritjtion of the Asoret or It ','xti-rn Mandt ; and 

 ('apt. Bartholomew, in London Geographical Journal, 



Vol. IV.) 



TEREBELLA. [TfBicoLiD.s.] (N.B. This comes too 

 near to Twbrll 



TEREBELLA'RIA,af;enusof Polypiaria, included by 

 Blaim ille in the family of Milleponea. 



TEREBELLUM, Lamarck's name for a genus of tes- 

 taceous mollusks, placed by Cuvier among his Pectini- 

 hranchiate Gastropods, between Ocula and I'uliiln; by De 

 lilainville among \\inAngyostornata, between Conns and 

 (Hint: and by Rang between M//ru and Ancillaria. 



The fossil Terebellum convolutum is the type of Mont- 

 fort's genus Seraphs. 



Generic Character. Animal ? 



Shell delicate, polished, subcylindrical, rolled upon 

 itself; the apex pointed; the aperture longitudinal and 

 triangular, very narrow behind and notched before : cdire 

 of the right lip simple and trenchant; columellar border 

 smooth, truncated, and slightly prolonged forwards. 



There appears to be but one recent species known, Tere- 

 bellum tabulation. 



De Blainville divides the genus into two sections : 



A. Species whose spire is visible, and whose aperture 

 is shorter than the shell. (Terebellum.) 



B. Species whose spire is nearly entirely hid by the 

 rolling up of the whorls of the spire, and whose 

 aperture is nearly as long as the shell. (Seraphs, 

 fossil.) 



Example, Tert helium subulalum. 



Description. Shell subulate-cylindrical, rather thin, 

 smooth, and polished ; the spire distinct ; the outer lip at- 

 tached to the columella. 



There are at least four varieties: 

 A. Clouded with chestnut, quadrifasciate, or with the 



(lour in patches. 

 1!. Ornamented with flcxuons subspiral or transversely ob- 



lique chestnut lines. 



C. Thickly dotted with rich chestnut. 



D. Entirely white. 

 Locality. The East Indies. 



Trbrllum inbuUlum. 



FOSSIL TKRKBBI.LA. 



The fossil species appear to belong to the Tertiary for- 

 mation, Eocene period of Lyell (Grignon, &c.). M. Des- 

 haycs, in hi* Tables, notices but two, Terebelln nmrnlii- 

 titn and /uti/orme, the same that are recorded by La- 

 marck. 



Terebellum convolutum. (Genui Strap/u of Momfi.rt.l 



TEREBINTA'CE-E, a natural order of dicotyledonous 

 plants. They are trees or shrubs, abounding in :i res 

 gummy, caustie, poisonous, and sometimes milky juice. 

 The leaves are alternate ami simple, ternate, or pinnate. 

 The flowers arc terminal or axillary, mostly unisexual. 

 The calyx is small. The petals and stamens are eijiuil in 

 number to the divisions of the calyx; sonic! im 

 mens are twice the number: the disk is tleshy ; ovary 

 simple ; fruit indehiscent, with a single exalbuminous 

 seed. 



This order was constituted by Jussieu, and is adopted 

 by De Candolle, Afnott, Don, and other writers on syste- 

 matic botany. Brown has however constructed five orders 

 from tlnV, viz., Anacardiaceir, Burseraccs-, Connai, 

 Spondiaceip, and Amyridareu-. These orders have been 

 recognised by Kunth, Lindlcy, and others ; and their cha- 

 racters and properties are given in this work under their 

 respective names. [ ANACA&DIAI K.K : HI-KSERACE.E ; CON- 

 NARACE.K ; SPONDI.M \ UIDK.K.] 



TE'REHKA. [ENTOMOSTOMATA, vol. Lv., p. 453.] 



TEHEBRA'LIA. Mr. Swain-on's name for a trenus of 

 testaceous Gastropods, arranged by him under t\u-f'--ri- 

 thi/irr, the filth subfamily of his MrnrnhitUr, and thus 

 characterized : 



Outer lip much dilated, generally uniting at .its b.. 

 the inner lip, leaving a round perforation at the 1 

 the pillar; channel truncate, operculum round. \Mnln- 

 coloffy.) 



Mr. Swainson places the genus between Pimm [M 

 NOPSIS] and Hhi'iinr/uri.-, Su. : and, among other s|n 

 refers to Trrr/>rn/iii Ti'li'Ki-njiiiiin. Ccntlinnn Trlrsrtipium 

 of authors. [ENTOMOSTOMATA, vol. ix., \i. 431.] 



Whatever may be thought of this genus, the name, from 

 its coming so near to Ti-rr/ir<i. may jiroduee confusion. 



The reasons for not admitting I'in'iia as a genus will be 

 found in the article MKI. AMU-MS. 



TKKKHK.Y'IV LA. [BRACHIOPODA, vol. v., p. 311.1 



TEREDI'NA, a testaceous mollusk of the family Tn'-i- 

 colar of Lamarck, and belonging to the Ad<-xmn<-ra of De 

 Blaim illc. 



lirneric Character. Valves equal, but inequilaleial ; 

 umbones prominent; when closed, crb-like with a v.iili- 

 angular opening in front and a subeiicular aperture at tin- 

 back. Tube testaceous, subcylindrical. \ulli a terminal 

 posterior extremity, without any septum, uniting to the 

 posterior part of the two valves. 



This genus is fossil only. Lamarck places it between 

 Ki'jitariu [TKRKDO] and Ti-rnln; Cuvier between Fi.sTU- 

 LANA and CLAVAOKLLA. 



Mr. Swainson arranges it in his family Pholidef, and 

 makes it a subgenus of '/V/w/v. 



Mr. J. E. Gray places Ti-r,;lina among the Pholailr*, 

 between Joint nm-t in and Tn 



M. 1 ' edition of Lamarck, observes 



that this curious genus was not well known to that ron- 

 logist, Tlie T'-redina, M. Deshayes remarks, is a true 



