252 CYPRJEA. GOWRIE. Class VI. 



GENUS XX. CYPPt^A. GOWRIE. 



Animal, a Slug. 



Shell sub-ova], blunt at each end. 

 Aperture the length of the shell, longitudinal, 

 linear; toothed. 



3. pedicu- Lin. Syst. 1180. No. 364. Lin. Tr. viii. 120. 



Lus - Gm. Lin. 3418. C- arctica. Mont. Test. Br. 



List. Angl. tab. iii. Jig. 17. 201. id. Sup. 88. 



Conch, tab. 706, 707. Jig: 

 56 and 57. 



C. with numerous stride, some bifurcated. Va- 

 ries with having three brown spots on the back. 

 Tab. lxxiii. [fig. 1. 



2. bullata. Lin. Tr. viii. 121. Mont. Test. Br. 202. t. 6. 



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4 * C. with a smooth subglobose shell ; smaller 

 than the preceding. Inhabits the sea near Ten- 

 by, and in Devonshire. 



This genus is called Cyprcea, and Venerea, 

 from its being peculiarly dedicated to Venus ; 

 who was said to have endowed a shell of this 



