OR, GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



yellow colouring, witli its curious stripes and gay 

 pink fringes, would form a real ornament to the 

 drawing-room sea; and just hinting at the intro- 

 duction of a specimen of the Tritonia Somhergi^ 

 remarkable for a power of producing an audible 

 sound like the click of a steel wire. 



The pretty little bivalve, the Lima liians^ also 

 forms a very attractive addition to the Aquarium, 

 especially in motion, when its long orange fringes 

 form a train or tail like that of a fiery comet, as 

 Dr. Landsborough has observed, as it glides along, 

 propelled by the discharge of a jet of water, the 

 mechanism for the propulsion of which forms its 

 swimming apparatus. 



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