92 LEPAS FASCICULARIS, 



6. LEPAS FASCICULARIS. PI. I, fig. 6. 



Lepas FASCICULARIS. Ellis and Solander. Zoophytes, 1786, 



Tab. xv, fig. 5. 



— — Montagu. Test. Brit. Suppl., 1808, 



pp. 5, 164. 



— cygnea. Spengler. Skrifter Naturhist. Selbskabet, Bd. i, 



1790, Tab. vi, fig. 8. 



— dilata. Donovan. British Shells, 1804. 

 Pentalasmis FASCICULARIS. Brown. Illust. Conch., 1844, PL li, 



%. 2. 

 — spirulicola (!) et Donovani (!) Leach. Tuckey's 



Congo Expedit., p. 413, 1818. 

 Anatifa vitrea. Lamarck. Animaux sans Vertebres. 

 Dosima fascicularis. (!) J. E. Gray. Annals of Philosophy, 



vol. x, 1825. 

 Pentalepas vitrea. Lesson. Voyage de la Coqnille. Mollusca, 



PL xvi, fig. 7, 1830. 

 Anatifa oceanica (!) Quoy et Gaimard. Voyage de 1' Astrolabe, 



PL xciii. 



L. valvis glabris, tenuibus, pellucidis; carina rectangule 

 flexd, parte inferior e in discum planum oblong um expansd. 



Valves smooth, thin, transparent ; carina rectangularly 

 bent, with the lower part expanded into a flat oblong 

 disc. 



Filaments, five on each side; segments of the three 

 posterior cirri with triangular brushes of spines. 



Var. (Donovani, of Leach.) Carina with the upper 

 part flat, spear-shaped, externally with a narrow central 

 ridge. 



Var. {Villosa. PL I, figs. 6b, c.) Valves placed rather 

 distant from each other ; carina extremely narrow, with 

 the upper part of nearly the same width throughout ; 

 terga with the lower part much acuminated ; body of 

 animal finely villose. 



Coasts of Great Britain and France ; Baltic Sea, according to Montagu 

 Southern United States (from Agassiz) ; tropical Atlantic Ocean ; East- 



