patella; 1035 



Patella Pileus Morionia major. Da Costa Brit. Conch. 



p. 12. 1. 1. f. 7. 

 Le Bonnet de Dragon. Favanne, ii. p. 540. t. 4. f. E 2. 

 Gualter, t. 9. f- V, and VV. Knorr, vi. t. 16. f. 3. Argen- 

 ville, t. 2. f. R. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. Coasts of England. 

 Pennant, S)C. 



The base, which is nearly round, is about an inch or some- 

 times two inches in diameter, and the shell is rather more 

 than half as high ; it is often coated with a brown shaggy 

 epidermis, beneath which the colour is reddish, and the in- 

 side is white and smooth ; the summit is much reflected, and 

 ends in two or three spiral turns ; the margin is more or less 

 regularly indented, and crenated. 



MiLiTARis. 43. Shell conical, with fine cancellated 

 striae, and the summit obliquely recurved ; 

 margin entire. 



Patella militaris. Linnmis Mantissa, p. 552. PuUeney 



Dorset Cat. p. 51. Montagu Test. p. 488. t. 13. f. 11. 



Donovan, v. 1. 171. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans. 



viii. p. 231. Dorset Cat, p. 58. t. 22. f. 7- 

 Le Reticule. Favanne, i. p. 538. t. 4. f. B. 

 Lister Conch, t. 544. f. 32. Petiver Gaz. t. 95. f. 12, and 



1. 162. f. 15. Klein Ost. t. 8. f. 10. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Barbadoes. Lister. Martinique and St. 



Domingo. Favanne. England. Pultenei/, Sfc. 

 West India specimens are often an inch in diameter, but those 

 which have been found on the English coasts are only half 

 so large ; it is white, and has somewhat the habit of P. iin- 

 garica ; but is at once distinguished by its obliquely recurved 

 summit, by its cancellated strias, and much thicker substance. 



ANTIQUATA. 44. Shell sub-conical, with concentric 

 imbricated wrinkles, and the summit slightly 

 recurved. 



Patella antiquata. Linnaeus S^/st. Nat. p. 1259. Gmelin, 



p. 3709. PuUeney s Dorset Cat. p. 51. Montagu Test. 



p. 485. t. 13. f. 9. 

 Patella Mitrula. Gmelin, p. 3708. Maton and Racket, 



in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 230. Dorset Cat. p. 58. t. 22. f. 



7 a. 

 Patella nivea. Gmelin, p. 3727. 



