1040 PATELLA. 



Patella pectinata, Linnccus Si/st. Nat. p. 1259. Schroeter 

 Einl. ii. p. 418. t. 5. f. 3. Gmelin, p. 37 10. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. 



Linnaeus, without any reference, has described this species to 

 be " opake, with the inside smooth and like tortoise-shell ; 

 outside with numerous unequal longitudinal striae." The 

 shell which Schroeter has figured is about two inches long, 

 of a greyish colour, and has the summit mottled with chest- 

 nut and white ; the inside is mottled like tortoise-shell with 

 chestnut and lead-colour. Born erroneously considered P. 

 intorta to be this species. 



Fusco-LUTEA. 54. Shell convex, oval-oblong, sub- 

 membranaceous, with longitudinal striae, 

 which are alternately larger, and wrinkled 

 transversely ; summit reflected. 



Patella lutea. Born Mas. p. 424. t. 18. f. 8. 



Inhabits 



The length of the base is about an inch, and the breadth rather 

 more than seven lines ; the colour, excepting a white mus- 

 cular impression, is yellowish brown both inside and out ; 

 the shell is thin and brittle, somewhat depressed towards the 

 base, and has the summit placed about three times as near 

 to one end as to the other. 



LUTEA. 55. Shell convex, oval-oblong, striated, with 

 the summit pointed, incurved, and nearly 

 marginal, and the inside iridescent. 



Patella lutea. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1260. 3Iartini, i. 

 p. 191. t. 17. f. 154 and 155. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 419. 

 Gmelin, p. 37 10. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 352. 

 L'Oreille de Mer piquetee. Favanne, i, p. 591. t. 5. f. E. 

 Rumphius, t. 40. f. I. Petiver Amh. t. Iti. f. 30. 



Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. 



Martini, as well as Favanne, considered this shell to be an im- 

 perforated species of Haliotis, and it may probably belong to 

 the same natural family as Helix perspicua ; the colour is 

 described to be fulvous, but Martini's figure has a greenish 

 tinge with spots and transverse stripes of yellow, and from 

 Favanne's description it appears to vary considerably in the 

 markings, as well as colour ; the length is about three-quar- 

 ters of an inch. His reference to Rumphius, t. 40. f. I, in 

 some measure proves this shell to be the P. lutea of Lin- 

 naeus ; but it is not at all like the upper valve of Anomia 



