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its food. The Litiopce, which, continually floating about the ocean, are 
attached to the Gulph weed. The whelks ( Buccinum ). The needle 
shell ( Terebra). The Bullia, which has a very large animal for the 
size of the shell. The Nassa. The Ringicula , which has been con¬ 
founded with the Auricula , but only differs from the Nassce in 
having the large plaits on the pillar. 
Table 11. The Olives , Ancillaria, and butter shells, or Eburna , 
which are polished externally : as the camp olive, ( Oliva porphyria,) 
from Panama ; the Brazilian olive ( O. Erasiliensis). 
Tables 11 —14. The genera allied to the Volutes. 
Tables 11, 12. The Melons, or Cymbium , which often grow to a 
large size, and are used for domestic purposes by the Chinese and other 
Asiatic nations : as the crowned melon, and some of the Volutes. 
The young of the melons are produced alive and of a large size, the 
top of the spine is of an irregular shape like a nipple. 
Tables 12, 13. The Volutes; as the very rare courtier or red clouded 
volute ( V. aulica); the gambaroon ( Voluta Beckii ); the imperial vo¬ 
lute ( V. imperialis), from China ; long-spined volute ( V. ancilla ), 
from the Falkland Islands. 
Table 13. The rest of the volutes, and the Mitres , which 
differ from the former in having a longer spire; as the bishop mitre 
(M. episcopalis); the abbot mitre (M. tiara); the papal crown 
( Mitra Papalis); the orange flag ( Mitra vexillum); the cracked 
mitre {M. fissurata). 
Tables 14, 15. The date shells ( Marginella ), which are covered with 
a polished coat, like the cowries and olives, as the spotted and lined 
date ( Marginella Persicula); the robin ( Marg. glabella). The Cow T ries 
( Cyprcea) and their allied genera. 
Table 14. The Cowries, as the morning dawn, or orange cowry 
(Cyprcea aurantia), used as an ornament by the inhabitants of 
the Friendly Islands, and therefore seldom procured without having 
been drilled; the map cowry ( C. mappa ); the Cyprcea Valentiana; 
the mole (Cyprcea talpa); the lapwing egg (Cyprcea mus), with 
scarcely any teeth ; the white-toothed cowry ( Cyprcea leucodon) ; the 
money cowry ( C. Moneta ), still used as currency in Africa. 
Table 15. The pig cowries ( Trivia ), which from the ribs on the 
back have been compared to scored pigs, from their resemblance to 
the animal; the China shell, or Ovula, as the Ovula angulosa, w T hich. 
like the orange cowry, is worn as an ornament by the natives of the 
country where it is found, and where it is so valued that they sometimes 
cut cones or other thick white shells into its shape. These shells are 
called Porcellaines, and are supposed to have been the cause of china 
being called by that name. The weaver’s shuttle {Radius), which is 
so called from its shape. 
Table 15. The various genera allied to Turbo, as the pome¬ 
granate or Turbo Sarmaticus, from the Cape of Good Hope. The 
singular, or Turbo torquatus, with its peculiar operculum, from New 
Zealand. The golden sun (Imperator occidentals), from the West 
Indies. The imperial, from New Zealand. The Guilfordian sun 
{Imp. Guilfordice), from Japan. The pheasant {Phasianella varia), 
from New Holland. 
