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BOOM XIII.] NATURAL HISTORT. 
genera Pleurotoma^ Conus, Fusus, and Pyrula, wliich 
have the pillar smooth; Turhinellus, Fasciolaria, and 
Cancellaria, which have this part plaited like the Volutes; 
amongst these may be observed a very fine specimen o£ 
the reversed Chank shelly valued by the Chinese. 
Cases 20 to 27 contain the family of the Buccina, 
{Buccinidce,) which have either an elongated and redexed;, 
or shore curved canal in front of the mouth ; and include 
the genera Cassis, Dolium Harpa, Puipura, Magilus, 
Ricinula, Oliva, Ancillaria, Columbella, Nassa, Terehra, 
and Buccinum, which are severally distinguished from each 
other by the form of the mouth: some of these^ which 
have the lips much dilated over the base of the last whorls^, 
have a very large foot, which secretes the shelly matter of 
which the lips are formed. In the Ancillaria;, where the 
shell is almost sunk in the foot, its surface is covered with 
a coat of shining enamel. There is also, in Case 27, a 
specimen of Terehra, which has had the outer part of the 
shell cut away, to shew the form of the pillar, and the 
mode by which the animal renders the tip of the shell 
solid, by filling it up with a glassy secretion. 
In Cases 28—30 are arranged the family of Cowries 
{Cypreeidoe), These shells, when young, have a wide 
mouth j the back is simple and covered with a periostra- 
cum, but as they reach the adult age, the mouth is con¬ 
tracted, and the back covered with a coat of enamel, de¬ 
posited on it by the sides of the mantle, which becomes ex¬ 
panded for this purpose ; as in the genera Cyprcea, Algoa,. 
Cyprovula, Trivia, Erato, and Ovula, which differ from 
each other in the teeth on the lips,^ and in the structure of 
the outer surface. 
Cases 31—34. The family of Volutes {Volutidee') are 
peculiar for their pillar being plaited. Some of these 
shells are covered with a periostracum, and when living 
are often more or less sunk into the large foot of the 
animal; as the genera Cymhium, Voluta, and Mitral- 
others, as the Marginellce, have the back of the shell 
covered with an enamel coat, like the Cowries, which is 
deposited by an expansion of the mantle, similar to what: 
takes place in those animals. 
The next order of Ctenohranchous Gasteropodes live 
chiefly on vegetable food, and being destitute of any dis^ 
