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MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY C^ R2EIDJE. 

 Prepared expressly for the .'" Manual of Conchology," 



BY S. RAYMOND ROBERTS, 



Member of the Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 



of Philadelphia. 



FAMILY 



(Cowries.) 



Animal having tentacles usually long and stout, the eyes 

 situated on a thickened portion about one-third the distance 

 from the base ; mantle produced into two lobes capable of 

 covering the shell, and furnished with warts, or forked or 

 pointed lilaments, sometimes papillose as in Trivia. 



Head obtuse, cylindrical; siphon broad, short, sometimes 

 fringed at the edge or bordered with papillae similar to those 

 on the mantle ; foot large, simple, oblong-ovate, in ample folds, 

 more or less acuminated at the extremities, sometimes truncate 

 in front ; in Trivia it extends posteriorly far beyond the shell 

 and terminates obtusely. 



Color of mantle extremely variable ; foot, head and siphon 

 usually pale orange. 



Individuals bisexual ; male organ very large. 



Lingual riband rather long, with seven series of teeth, 

 arranged 3* 1*3, each row being composed of one broad quadrate 

 uncinated rachidian tooth flanked on each side by three hooked 

 laterals (PI. 15, iig. 8; PI. 20, tig. 41). Jaw corneous (PL 20, 

 fig. 64). 



No operculum. 



Shell ovate, varying from cylindrical to pyriform, sometimes 

 ribbed or pustulate, but mostly smooth and possessing a high 

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