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species, dredged from twenty fathoms water, was furnished 

 with a very extensive proboscis, which it was able to 

 exsert to the distance of two inches from the head, using 

 it as a perceptive organ, in the same manner as the 

 Elephant does his trunk. 



I have observed the animal of Eulima major, in the 

 living state, at Looc Bay, in the Philippines, at Cagayan- 

 Sooloo, and at the Panagatan shoals, near Apo Island. 

 This mollusk, which I have described in the ' Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History,' is slow-moving, and ex- 

 cessively timid, retreating quickly within its shell on the 

 slightest alarm. The animal is entirely of an opaque 

 pearly white; the eyes black, and generally concealed 

 under the front of the shell, as are those small, reflected 

 lobes of the mantle, which produce the polished surface 

 of the Eulima ; the tentacles are yellow at the tip, orange 

 in the middle, and white at the base. It wonld remain 

 for hours after capture without moving, and emerge from 

 its polished castle with the utmost caution and distrust. 



The old stakes of the numerous fishing wears laid 

 down by the natives among the shallows of these islands, 

 are incrusted with Oysters of a very delicious flavour ; and 

 it was a source of much amusement, after the labours of 

 the day were done, to collect a number of these oyster- 

 loaded stakes, and cook them in the fires which we had 

 lighted to cheer our bivoua'c. Seated in a circle, we 

 watched, with hungry interest, the opening of these delec- 

 table mollusks, when scooping out the savoury morsels 

 with our knives, we enjoyed the feast kind nature had 

 provided us. 



In the animal of Lima, the long, slender finger-like 



