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spines of an Echinus at Cullercoats, but rather injured, and in 
2 very sickly state. We placed it in a glass of fresh sea-water, 
“oping that it might recover, and display itself more distinctly ; 
but in this we were disappointed, as it soon died, and being left 
unlooked at for a while had partially decayed. The animal was 
white, had a rather large foot, without operculum, and a rounded 
head with two cylindrical tentacles, and minute eyes at the (ex- 
ternal or posterior) base. No portion of the shell was covered 
by the fleshy parts, but we are not prepared to say that, in a 
state of vigour, the animal has not the power of extending some 
part of the mantle or foot overit. In these particulars it does not 
differ much from the Stylifer described by Mr. A. Adams, from 
the coast of Borneo; but we cannot agree with Mr. Gray in plac- 
ing this genus in the family Maticide, as the very large and pe- 
culiar disc in front of the head in Natica is entirely wanting 
here. The animal has much more the appearance of an Hulima.* 
The remains of the animal examined under a microscope did not 
show any denticulated tongue. 
45. EULIMA, Risso. 
1. E. pistorta, Desh. 
Hulima distorta, Phil. Enum. Moll. Sic. i. 135. 
A beautiful fresh specimen of this interesting little shell was 
got at Whitburn by the Rev. G. C. Abbes. 
The animal has two long subulate tentacles, with very large 
eyes at their posterior base ; the foot is slender, much produced 
in front, and has a bilobed flap (the mentwm of Lovén) on its 
upper surface. The body is yellow, beautifully variegated with 
carmine, which forms an irregular band on each side ; the ten- 
tacles and foot, white. These are the prevailing colours of the 
genus, but the disposition of them is different in different spe- 
cies, and appears to be sufficiently permanent to be taken as a 
specific character. In /. polita the animal is white, excepting 
* «¢ Hulima. Animal proboscide longa preditum recondenda; lingua in- 
ermis ? ’—Lovén, Index Moll. Scand. Mr. Broderip states that Stylifer has a 
retractile proboscis, and the Stylifer subulatus, Bred., figured in Sowerby’s 
Genera of Shells, greatly resembles an Zulia. 
