584 VENUS’ GIRDLE. 
If the reader will now refer to the illustration he will see a long, flat, 
riband-like creature edged with a delicate fringe of cilia. This curious being 
is called VENUS’ GIRDLE, and from its beauty fully deserves the name. 
This lovely creature is found in the Mediterranean, where it attains to the 
extraordinary length of five feet, the breadth being only two inches. Rightly, 
PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WaAR.—(Physalis prlagicus.) 
VENUS’ GIRDLE.—(Cestum Veneris.} SALLEE MAN.—(Vedella vulgaris.) 
the words breadth and length ought to be transposed, as the development is 
wholly lateral, The mouth of the Venus’ Girdle may be seen in the centre 
of the body, occupying a very small space in proportion to the large dimen- 
sions of the ‘creature to which it belongs. : 
WE now come to a vety large order of acalephs, including all those beings 
