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are very prominent, somewhat genicular, and slightly tuber- 

 culated, with the interstices smooth, or only very faintly 

 striated ; one side of the shell is oblique, and the other up- 

 right, so as to form a beak or spout in the aperture. 



palmipes. 16. Shell erect, conical, valves at the 

 base palmated. 



Lepas palmipes. Einnazus Mantissa, p. 544. Gmelin, p. 

 3209. Wood's Conch, p. 5 1 . 



Inhabits the Ocean. Linnaus. 



No author has figured this species, and the following is the 

 description given in the Mantissa. " Shell the size of a 

 large pea, white, conical, rather depressed ; valves four or 

 six, smooth, divided as far as the middle into five or six 

 finger-like divisions : operculum four valved and oblique." 

 Mr. Wood has added that the divisions of the valves are 

 irregular, and not unlike the fangs of the molar teeth. 



radiata. 17. Shell with six smooth valves marked 

 with longitudinal violet rays, and the in- 

 terstices very finely striated transversely. 



Lepas radiata. Wood's Conch, p. 50. t. 7. £. 7. 



Inhabits 



Mr. Wood describes this shell to be about five-eighths of an 

 inch broad at the base, and a quarter of an inch high ; valves 

 triangular and painted with violet rays which are close toge- 

 ther at the apex, but more open at the circumference ; the 

 interstices are highly polished, and very finely striated trans- 

 versely. 



"minor. 18. Shell conical with unequal transversely 

 striated dotted valves, and the interstices 

 smooth ; aperture beaked on one side. 



Lepas minor. Gmelin, p. 3212. Wood's Conch, p. 50. t. 



7. f. 6. 

 Lepas, No. 2. Schroder Einleitung, iii. p. 525. 

 Balanus punctatus. Bruguiere Enc. Method, p. l6S. 

 Chemnitz, viii. t. 97. f. 827. Enc. Method, t. 164. f. 14. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 



Shell about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and half an 

 inch high ; the tips of the valves are recurved on the ante- 

 rior side, so that they all point in the same direction, and 

 form a projecting beak or spout at the aperture. My speci- 



