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or yellowish brown colour clouded with dirty green ; the 

 outer surface is described to be covered with elevated curved 

 parallel striae, which become larger towards the spire ; and 

 the number of the tubercles is said to be from twenty to 

 thirty, of which only four or five are perforated ; Linnteus 

 says the margin in this species is unequal, in the following 

 species equal, and small in both. 



MARMORATA. 8. Shell ovate, with longitudinal and 

 obsolete transverse striae. 



HaUotis marniorata. Linnceus S^st. Nat. p. 1256. Mar- 

 tini, i. p. 180. t, 14. f. 139. Born Mus. p. 412. Schroe- 

 ter Einl. ii. p. 379. Gmelin, p. 3688. Schreihers Conch. 

 i. p. 331. 

 La petite Oreille de Mer des Indes. Favanne, i. p. 581. 



t. 5. f.A 1. 

 Lister Conch, t. 614. f. 6. Gualter, t. 69. f. A. Argen- 

 ville, t. 3. f. B. Knorr, ii. t. 17. f. 4 and 5. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Africa. Linnaus. East Indies. Chem- 

 nitz. Guinea. Humphreys. 

 Shell from two and a half to four inches long, and two-thirds 

 as broad, and is prettily mottled with greenish or yellowish 

 brown and white ; the longitudinal stride are fine, and the 

 transverse ones obsolete; it has about thirty tubercles, of 

 which from four to six are perforated. 



GLABRA. 9. Shell ovate, rather smooth, green mot- 

 tled with white, and the spire small. 



Haliotis glabra. Chemnitz, x. p. 311. t. l66. f. l602. 

 Gmelin, p. 3690. Ulysses's Travels, p. 474. 



Inhabits the Bay of Naples. Ulysses. 



Shell about two inches and five lines long, and an inch and 

 three-quarters broad, with only a few transverse strige near 

 the spire, and a few longitudinal ones behind the tubercles, 

 of which about six are perforated ; the inner lip is said to be 

 very broad. 



ASiNiNA. 10. Shell oblong, rather smooth, with 

 elevated nerves on the outside, and the mar- 

 gin somewhat sickle-shaped. 



Haliotis asinina. Linnmis Syst. Nat. p. 1256. Martini, 

 i. p. 190. t. 16. f. 150. Born Mus. p. 412. Schroeter 



