118 cliiDjE. 



Family II. CLI'ID^. 



Body forming an elongated cone. 



Shell pyramidal or lanceolate : operculum none. 



Woodward^s family of this name is founded on the 

 genus Clione, which he called Clio, 



Genus CLIO*, Browne. PL IV. f. 5. 

 Body triangular, and ending in a long spike. 



Shell pyramidal, compressed at the sides, and ridged length- 

 wise, or spinous : mouth wide and angular. 



Clio is perhaps the only phosphorescent kind of Pte- 

 ropod. Eschscholtz, in his figures of PleuropuSy which 

 does not appear to differ from the present genus,, and 

 of Cresis or Styliola (Zool. Atl. p. iii, t. 15), represents 

 the animal as having two eyes ; and De Blainville says 

 the same. The doubt as to the existence and position 

 of these organs ought to be set at rest. But with re- 

 spect to the shell, there can be no question : it is 



" Brighter than glassf, and yet, as glass is, brittle." 



I need scarcely tell my readers that most of the 

 poetical quotations in this work are (except where 

 otherwise stated) also from Shakespeare. 



It is the genus Cleodora of Peron and Lesueur. 

 Linne described all his species of Clio (viz. caudata, 

 pyramidata, and retusa) from Browne^s ' History of 

 Jamaica ; ^ and his reference to Marten^s ' Voyage to 



* A daughter of Oceanus. 



t " Splendidior vitro " (Hor. C. iii. 13). 



