2. Bullæa. One species.

Formerly classed with the Bulla, but separated from it on account of the

shell being entirely covered by the animal, and never externally

visible.

Shell oval, thin, fragile, more or less involuted on one side, rendering

the aperture more or less wide.

_B. aperta._ The open Bullæa. Pl. 17, fig. 5.

Shell interior and very incompletely involuted, without spire or

columella; sub-orbicular, white, transparent, faintly striated, and

slightly wrinkled; almost entirely open.

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