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The Natural Hifloryof JAMAICA. 
Small white ribb’d Barbados Limpet. 
This was very fmall, round and much raifed, the Top was not per- 
forated but moftly white, tho” fometimes black. It had white and black 
Fafcie on its Margin. | 
‘I found it with the former. 
IV. Patella major tenuis compreffa, striata, cinerea, maculis crebris e rubro 
fufcis vartegata, vertice albo. Tab. 240. Fig. 16, 17. 
This wasa little oblong, thin, compreffed, of an Afh Colour, varie- 
gated with many reddifh black Spots. It had Ribs or Strée, and an ori- 
ent Pearl colour’d white Top, ftanding not in the Middle but towards one 
End of it. 
V. Patella alba, paucis C- valde eminentibus ftriss ftellata. Lift. Hift. Conchyl. 
Tab. 532. N° 11. 
The Figure of this fmall Pate#a was oval, not half an Inch longways, 
and a quarterofanInch broad. It was of a grey Colour and very thick 
fet with very extant or eminent Ribs or Strze, from the Centre or Apex 
to the Circumference. 
I found it on the Shoars of Famaica, and have had it from Barbados. 
VI. Patella albida cancellatatateribus paululum comprefis. List. Hift. Con~ 
chyl. Tab. §37- N° 20. 
This is a very thin tranfparent Shell, oval, about three quarters of an 
Inch long. Itis flat, the Vertex being more to one End than the other. 
The Strte run from the Vertex to the Circumference, and are crofs’d by 
fome others which are circular and concentric to the Vertex. 
I had it in famazca on the Shoars of that Ifland. 
VII. Patella minor compreffa, oblonga, cinerea, vertice perforato. Pa- 
tella admodum depreffa finu quodam ad marginem donata. Lift. Hift. Conchyl. 
Tab. 528. N° 3. | 
This Shell is a little oblong, about an Inch long, half as broad, flat, of 
agrey Colour. Ithath very fmall fine S¢rze running from the open Apex 
as from a Centre to the Circumference: It hath as other Sea-thells of 
‘famaica, ared or grey Incruftation here and there upon it. 
a sound it on the Shoars of Famaica, where they differ in Mag- 
nitude, 
VIII. Patella cinerea minor, vertice aperto elato, ftriis nodofis donata. Lift. 
Hift. Conchyl. Tab. §28. N°-6. Patella Barbadenfis, rugofa. Pet. Gaz. Nat. 
Tab. 80. Fig.12. Cat. p. 4. N° 580. 
~. The Wart ribb’d Barbados Limpet. 
This isa {mall round Shell of a grey Colour, it is more rais’d than 
the Precedent, hathfewer Strie and here and there Lumps or Knots on 
them. The Srrie begin at the open Top, and end in the Circumfe- 
rence. | 
I found it with the former. IX. 
