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CYPIl/EA. 
proposed to the attention of naturalists, without 
attempting to account for the fact adverted to. 
The Cypreese live deeply buried in the sand, from 
whence it is said, at the full moon and during its 
increase, these little lunatics, for such they have 
been already proved, crawl forth to expatiate upon 
the rocks, and leave there their shells for the 
benefit and instruction of Conchologists. 
To the Cyprian Goddess this genus, including 
certainly some of the most Beautiful of species, is 
very fitly, but, as to its orthography, very ill in- 
scribed. From the original Ku<7r^iog will come 
Cypria, but not Cypreea. 
