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POPULAR CONCHOLOGY. 



of them attached to the edge of the operculum 

 on one side only. — 1 recent and 1 fossil species. 



This tubular animal is found in New Hol- 

 land.* 



PART IL 



CIRRHIPEDA.f 



These animals are soft, destitute of head or 

 eyes, testaceous, having the body fixed, and 

 furnished with a mantle ; they have also ten- 

 tacula, with curled tufts. The number of arms 

 varies, and they are unequal in size ; the shell 

 is either sessile or elevated on a flexible 

 pedicle, and is composed of several valves, 

 sometimes moveable, sometimes fixed. $ They 

 are divided into two families. 



* Magillus, a genus placed here by Lamarck, is now 

 found to be of the class Mollusca, and is described in the 

 fourth part of the work. 



•j* From cirrus, Lat., a curled tuft of hair, and pedes, feet, 

 J * c All these animals are oviparous. As soon as the 

 young one comes forth, it attaches itself to the nearest 

 body by secreting shelly matter." — Reeve's Conchologia 

 Systematica. 



