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offspring of inordinate conceit, and the selfish vanity of grati- 

 fying, " codte qui coute" the morbid cravings after public 

 notoriety. 



EULIMA, Risso. 



This genus shows a still nearer approach to the Muricidae 

 than Chemnitzia, with which, however, it is closely allied, 

 though distinct in several points; the mute rostrum has 

 entirely disappeared, the tentacula are short, conically taper- 

 ing to a point, and not flat, triangular, auriform and folded 

 as in that genus ; they have less basal coalition, and the eyes, 

 though fixed at their bases, are less internal, being exactly 

 medial. Both genera have the proboscis strictly "recon- 

 denda" with a very long unarmed lingual riband. The ana- 

 tomy of the minute Chemnitzia is, I believe, unknown ; there- 

 fore a comparison cannot be made with Eulima', we only 

 mention, that in it there is an excessively long vas deferens or 

 epididymis, as in Murex undatus. We have dissected many of 

 iheE.polita, but never found in the proboscis, or lingual riband, 

 the least appearance of spinous processes. It is probable that 

 the buccal apparatus of all the Chemnitziae is destitute of 

 the spinous tongue. The conchological alliance of this genus 

 with Chemnitzia is excellent, as it has the same inversion of 

 the apical volutions. What has been mistaken for the mentum 

 by some authors, not by Loven, who does not mention such 

 an organ in Eulima, is an integral part of the disk of the 

 foot, which, in the adult animals of E. polita, is always marked 

 with bright orange-coloured segments of a circle, and is the 

 usual labium that divides the upper skin of the anterior 

 portion of the foot from the sole. I have not only seen but 

 dissected the retractile proboscis of Eulima, which is very 

 similar to that of Chemnitzia ; it consists of two retractile 

 tubes, an inner and an outer one, as in Murex undatus. 

 Though the long flat tongue appears quite smooth, there is, 

 nevertheless, in the inner cylinder, the appearance of a sha- 

 greened, roughened portion, which may be tantamount to the 

 denticular apparatus of the inner tube of the M. undatus. 



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