8 CHITON. 



Jennings's Collection, is represented to be an inch and a 

 quarter long, and about two thirds as broad. The colour 

 is bright chesnut, with an interrupted white band running 

 along the back, and undulating white lines, edged beneath 

 with black, pass diagonally across the marginal triangles, 

 and concentrically on the extreme valves. 



fascicularis. 19. Shell with eight valves, and a 

 lateral tuft of hair on each. 



Chiton fascicularis. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1106. Chem- 

 nitz, x. p. 37 1. 1. 173. f. 1688. Gmelin, p. 3202. Dorset 

 Catalogue, p. 25. t. 1. f. 1. Montagu Test. p. 5. t. 27. 

 f. 5. Maton and Racket in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 21. 1. 1. 

 f. 1. Wood's Conch, p. 16. t. 2. f. 6. Enc. Method. 

 t. 163. f. 15. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Barbary. Linnaus. Great Britain. 



Putteney, &c. 

 Shell varying from half an inch to an inch in length, and about 



half as broad ; colour cinereous, more or less marked with 



black ; back slightly keeled ; valves smooth with a tuft of 



white hair on the lower margin of each. 



sulcatus. 20. Shell with eight thick, convex, 

 grooved valves ; margin broad and scaly. 



Chiton sulcatus. Wood's Conch, p. 16. t. 3. f. 1. 



Inhabits the South Seas. Wood. 



Shell about four inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad. 

 Mr. Wood says, the extreme valves are furrowed from 

 center to margin, and many of the sulcated ridges are also 

 grooved at the end : the middle valves are grooved in the 

 same manner, and most of the marginal triangles are formed 

 of three deep unequal furrows : the colour is sordid brown, 

 inclining to black on the back part of the middle valves, and 

 the inside is greenish white. 



bicolor. 21. Shell with eight thick, slightly keeled 

 and striated valves ; outside sea-green, with a 

 blackish margin, and the inside white. 



Chiton bicolor. Gmelin, p. 3204. Wood's Conch, p. 17. 



Chiton, No. 2. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 503. 



Chemnitz, viii. t. 94. f. 794 and 795. 

 Inhabits the Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about two inches and a quarter long, and the breadth 



