PATELLA. 1051 



Patella notata. Lintiaus Sj/st. Nat. p. 126 1. Schroeter 

 Einl. ii. p. 431. t. 5. f. 5, Chemnitz, x. p. 324, and Vign. 

 25 at p. 320. f. CandD. C me/in, p. 37 19- Schreibers 

 Conch, i. p. 357. 

 La Gerbe de Bled. Humphreys Conch, p. 26. t. 5. f. 1 . 

 Kammerer Cab. liudoht. p. 13. t. 2. f. 3 and 7- 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnccus. Coasts of Guinea and 



the West Indies. Chemnitz. 

 Shell nine, ten, or sometimes eleven lines long, and rather more 

 than two-thirds as broad, of a dullish ash-colour, with black- 

 ish or brown longitudinal crowded fine elevated str ix ; the 

 summit is placed twice as near to one end as to the other, 

 and is sometimes surrounded with a blackish ring ; the inside 

 is white, with a chestnut spotted margin, and the muscular 

 impression of a blackish or brownish colour, is shaped like a 

 spatula, or, accorduig to Da Costa, like a wheat-sheaf, and 

 the shell is thence called in the Portland Catalogue the Wheat- 

 sheaf Patella. 



CRUCIATA. 79. Shell oval, sub-convex, very entire, 

 and brown with a white cross. 



Patella cruciata. Linnams Si/st. Nat. p. 1261. Schroeter 

 Einl. ii. p. 432. t, 5. f. 6. Gmelin, p. 3719. Schreibers 

 Conch, i. p. 357. 



Inhabits 



Linnasus, without any reference to a figure, has given only a 

 short description of this species, which is said by Schroeter 

 to be an inch long, and three-quarters of an inch broad, of a 

 brown colour, with four broad white rays, and a paler sum- 

 mit, the inside white, and the muscular impression brown. 



RETICULATA. 80. Shell conical, compressed, entire, 

 and reticulated with veins. 



Patella reticulata. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1261. Schroeter 

 Einl. ii. p. 433. t. 5. f. 7. Gmelin, p. 3719. Schreibers 

 Conch, i. p. 357. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Einnaus. 



Linnaaus has given only a short description, without any re- 

 ference to a figure, and I much doubt whether the shell 

 which Schroeter has figured belongs to the same species ; 

 by the figure it appears to be roundish, and about eight lines 

 in diameter, and it is said to be milk-white, much narrower 

 behind, with elevated crowded decussated striae, and the 

 summit nearly central and obtuse. 



