PATELLA. 



Plate V. 



Species 8. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cuming.) 



Patella rustica. Pat. testa ovatd, indistiucte octagond, 

 eonvexiusculd, solidd, acute rude irregularUer coatald, 

 costis versus nmrffinem sqnamatis ; ferrugineo-rvfd, 

 itttus lacted, margiue acute irregrdariter sqnamato, 

 palUde rufescente. 



The rustic Limpet. Shell ovate, indistinctly octagonal, 

 rather convex, solid, sharply rudely irregularly ribbed, 

 ribs scaled towards the margin ; rust-red, milk-white 

 within, margin sharply ii-regularly squamate, pale 

 reddish. 



LiNNJiDs, Syst. Nat. (12th edit.) p. 1361. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope. 



A bold roughly ribbed species, the ribs being bluntly 

 scaled towards the margin, of a peculiar rust-red colour, 

 milk-white in the interior. 



Species 9. (Fig. a, h, Mus. Cuming.) 



Patella .enea. Fat. tesid suhobloiigo-ovatd, nltd, apice 

 antice inditiato, radiatim sguamato-co.itatd, squamis 

 brevissimis, subdistantibus ; intense sordide fused, iutiis 

 eeueo-castaned. 



TuE BRONZE Limpet. Shell somewhat oblong-ovate, 

 high, apes incUned anteriorly, radiately squamately 

 ribbed, scales very short, rather distant ; dark didl 

 bi'own, interior bronze-chestnut. 



Martyn, Universal Conchology, vol. i. pi. 17. 



Hab. Straits of Magellan ; Cuming. 



An elevately oblong-conical species, of a dull brown, 

 rayed with bluntly scaled ribs, the scales being rather 

 distant. The interior is chestnut-stained and of irides- 

 cent bronze. 



October, 1851. 



