OLIVES. 151 



As if tlie spirit of beauty had taken pos- 

 session of the Harpinm and permeated them 

 through and through, we find the animals them- 

 selves, as well as their shells, bright with bands 

 and blotches of color. 



There is a resemblance between some of 

 the olives and the cone shells, as shown in our 

 illustration ; yet the differences in the living 

 animals, as well as in the shells themselves, 

 place them in distinct families. The Olividm 

 are destitute of an epidermis, which is one dif- 

 ference, as this characterizes the members of 

 the ConidcB. Other distinctions mark them, 

 yet each have the beautiful shining and pic- 

 tured surfaces, as also has the Phasianella, 

 the pretty pheasant shell of our engraving. 



