PLATE CLXVL 



FIG. I. 



LEPAS SCALPFXLUM. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Triton. Shell affixed at the base, multivalve ; the valves 



unequal. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell compressed. Valves thirteen, smooth, and seated on a scaly 



peduncle. 



Lepas Scalpellum: testa compressa tredecim valvi lxviuscula 

 pedunculo squamosa insidente. Linn. Fn. 

 Suec. 2121. — Gmcl. Syst. Nat. 3210. Sp. 11. 

 Ellis Phil. Trans. 1758. t. 34./. 4. page 849. 



Lepas Scalpellum, a very rare and curious species, has been found 

 attached to some sea weeds, dredged up on the coast of Weymouth ; 

 a specimen of it affixed to the branches of a coralline that was dis* 



