PLATE CLXXI. 



PATELLA MILITARIS. 



HOOKED LIMPET, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Limax : shell univalve, sub-conic without spire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell entire, conic, pointed, striated, with the tip hooked, or re- 

 curved on one side. 



Patella militaris: testa inregra conica acuminata striata, ver- 

 tice hamoso lateraliter recurvo. Linn. Mant. 

 552. 



List. Conch. 544. 

 Putt. Cat. p. 51. 



When Linnaeus described this shell in the Appendix to his Mantissa 

 Plantarum, its native country was unknown to him. It is a 

 Mediterranean species, and is sometimes, though rarely, met with on 

 the British coast. We have it from Cornwall through the favour of 

 Miss Pocock, and lately from Devonshire. Dr. Puitney acquaints 

 us, that Mr. Bryer found this species on the sands near Weymouth 

 Castle, Dorsetshire. 



