HALIOTIS. 1009 



silvery ; it has about thirty tubercles, of which six are per- 

 forated ; the inner margin is said to be very broad, and the 

 outer lip crenated. 



viRGiNEA. 3. Shell ovate, with decussated undu- 

 lated striae, and the inside iridescent. 



Haliotis virginea. Chemnitz, x. p. 314. t. l66. f. 1607 and 

 1608. Gmelin, p. 3690. 

 Inhabits the coasts of New Zealand. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about an inch and a half long, and an inch broad, of a 



dull green colour, spotted and on the margin striped with 



white ; it has six of the tubercles perforated ; the inside is 



striated, and strikingly iridescent. 



TUBERCULATA. 4. Shell sulj-ovate, with the out- 

 side transversely wrinkled dnd tuberculated. 



Haliotis tuberculata. Linnmis St/sf. Nat. p. 1256. Pen- 

 nant Zool. iv. p. 141. t. 88. f. 144. Martini, i. p. 18?. 

 t. 16. f. 146 to 149. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 375. Gme- 

 lin, p. 3687. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 330. Donovan, 

 i. t. 5. Montagu Test. p. 473. Maton and Racket, in 

 Lin. Trans, viii. p. 227. Dorset Cat. p. 57. t. 22. f. 1 

 and 2. Brookes s Introd. p. 135. t. 9. f. 121. Burrow's 

 Elements, p. 173. t. 21. f. 1. 



Haliotis vulgaris. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 15. t. 2. f. 1 

 and 2. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 97. 



L'Ormier. Adanson Senegal, p. 19. t. 2. f. 1. 



L'Oreille de Mer des Cotes de France. Favanne, i. p. 582. 

 t. 5. f. A 2. 



Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 1. f. 10 and 11. Lister Anim. 

 Ang. t. 3. f. 16, and Conch, t. 6ll. f. 2. Rumphius, t. 

 40. f. G and H. Gualter, t. 69. f. I. Argenville, t. 3. 

 f. A. Knorr, i. t. 17. f . 2 and 3. Ginanni Adr. ii. t. 

 S. f. 27. Regenfuss, i. t. 8. f. 20, and t. 10. f. 42. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Europe. Linnceus. Great Britain. 



Lister, &)'c. Senegal. Adanson. Adriatic. Ginanni. France. 



Favanne. 

 Shell about three or four inches long, and about three-fourths 



as broad, strong, of a reddish brown colour more or less 



mottled, and is generally covered with Balani and Serpulae ; 



the outer surface is longitudinally striated, and transversely 



wrinkled ; the marginal ridge which terminates in the spire 



has about twenty-eight tubercles, which increase in size as 



they recede from the summit, and from six to eight of the 



