in pagan mythology, the daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, was the muse who presided over history. She is generally represented under the form of a young woman crowned with laurel, holding in her right hand a trumpet, and in her left a book.

in zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of vermes mollusca. The body is oblong and fitted for swimming; and it has two membranaceous wings placed opposite to each other. The species are three, principally distinguished by the shape of their vagina, and all natives of the ocean.

CLIEPEUS, in natural history, a name given to the flat depressed centronia, from their resembling a shield. See CENTRONIA.