1084 SERPULA. 



t. 3. f. G. Knorr, iv. I. 28. f. 1, and vi. t. 40. f. 1. Da 

 Costa Elements, t. 2. f, 8. 

 Variety. Sub-fusiform, with the summit only sHghtly bor- 

 dered, and the perforated disk small. 



Penicillus Novae Zelandize. Brnguiere Enc. Meth. p. 129- 

 L'Arrosoir de la Nouvelle Zelande. Favanne, i. p. 642, t. 

 79. f. E. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Java. Linnaus. Amboyna. Rumphius. 

 Coromandel. D'Avila. Moluccas. Favanne. Madagas- 

 car, and the Nicobar Islands. Humphreys. 

 This shell when perfect is nearly a foot long, and more than an 

 inch in diameter at the dilated summit, which is convex, and 

 perforated so as to resemble the spout of a watering-pot ; 

 the summit has a radiated border, and the perforations are 

 circular, excepting the one in the center which is linear ; the 

 colour is whitish with a slight tinge of pale red or grey, and 

 the whole of the shell very brittle ; according to Favanne, 

 the lower part by which it adheres to the rocks is flexuose 

 and twisted, and the upper part, which is straight, proceeds 

 from it nearly at a right angle. The Variety appears to have 

 been wholly described by Favanne from a drawing which 

 was sent him, and without any additional authority it has 

 been arranged by Brnguiere as a separate species ; it differs 

 in being thicker, and much more distended below the sum- 

 mit, towards which it is rounded off; the perforated disk is 

 also much smaller, and the radiated border hardly projects 

 at all, so that the general outline of the shell is fusiform, 



OCREA. 36. Shell sub-cylindrical, widening at the 

 base, and shaped like a boot. 



Serpula Ocrea. Gmelin, p. 3744. 



Serpula, No. 2. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 55Q. 



LeTuyau en forme de Botte. Favanne, i. p. 644. t. 5. f. D. 



Rumphius, t.41. f. K. Petiver Amh. t. 20. f. 12. Martini, 



i. p.44. t. 1. f.9. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas on coral, Rumphius. 



This shell is represented to be nearly two inches high, and eight 

 lines broad, of a dark brown colour, and widened at the 

 base so as almost exactly to resemble a man's boot ; all the 

 other figures have been copied from Rumphius, on whose 

 sole authority it rests ; and it is probably nothing more than 

 an accidentally distorted Variety of some other species, 



PROBOSCIDEA. 37, Shell taper, smooth, with the 

 broad end straight, and transversely plaited. 



