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0tnm XXXI. 



HALIOTISit 



SHELL EAR-SHAPED AND DILATED, WITH A LONGI- 

 TUDINAL ROW OF PERFORATIONS ; SPIRE LA- 

 TERAL AND NEARLY CONCEALED. 



MiD^. 1. Shell roundish, and polished on both 

 sides. 



Haliotis Midae. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1255. Martini, 

 i. p. 178. 1. 14. f. 136", and t. 15. f. 141. Born Mus. 

 p. 411. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 374. Gmelin, p. 3687. 

 Schreibers Conch, i. p. 330. 

 L'Oreille de Mer feuilletee. Favanne, i. p. 587. t. 5. f. B. 

 Lister Conch, t. 6l3. f. 5. Gualter, t. 69. f. B. Knorr, 

 V. t. 20. f. B. ? 

 Inhabits the East Indian Seas. lyAvila. Coasts of the Isle 

 of France. Favanne. Cape of Good Hope. Humphreys. 

 The base is about five inches long, and four broad, with a lon- 

 gitudinal row of from eight to ten perforations ; the outer 

 surface, when deprived of its yellowish brown epidermis, is 

 white more or less tinged with orange and other colours, and 

 is strongly wrinkled transversely ; the inside is smooth and 

 pearly. 



PULCHERRIMA. 2. Shell roundish, with granulated 

 striae, and the spire exserted. 



Haliotis pulcherrima. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 62. 



Chemnitz, x. p. 313. 1. 166. f. l605 and 1606. Gmelin, 



p. 3690. 



Inhabits King George's Sound in the South Sea. Martyn. 



Shell about three-quarters of an inch long, and nearly equally 



broad; variegated with white and rose-colour, and the inside 



t H. Guinetnsis of Gmelin, p. 3689, appears to me to be too uncertain a 

 •pecies to b« retained 3 and H. perversa) and H.plkata, p, 3690, are fossils. 



