334 Capt. P. P. King’s Description of 
at Calbuco, near the north end of the Island of Chiloe. It occurs in 
large bunches, and presents somewhat of a cactus-like appearance. 
The parent is covered by its progeny, so that large branches are found 
composed of from 50 to 100 distinct individuals, each of which becomes 
in its turn the foundation of another colony. One specimen in the 
possession of my friend W. J. Broderip, Esq., consists of a numerous 
group based on two large. individuals. They are collected by being 
chopped off with a hatchet. At Concepcion, where they are found of 
larger size than to the southward, they are principally procured at the 
Island of Quiriquina, which lies across the entrance of the bay; whence 
they are exported in large quantities to Valparaiso and Santiago de Chile, 
where they are considered as a great delicacy, and indeed with some 
justice, for the flesh equals in richness and delicacy that of the crab, 
which, when boiled and eaten cold, it very much resembles. 
2. Exminius LEAcui1.* 
E, testd albidd, truncata, longitudinaliter striata, radiis creberrimé 
longitudinaliter substriatis ; operculo ad basin transversim striato, 
quadripartito ; long. =; lat. 3; poll. 
Habitat. . In Museo Geo. Sowerby et nost. 
3. SCALPELLUM PAPILLOSUM. 
S. pedunculo creberrimé papilloso ; testa levi valdé compressa ; long. 
omnino +1; +4; peduncvli; lat. -.°;, poll. 
Habitat in mare alto circa oras Patagonicas. Mus. nost., G. Sowerby. 
Taken by a dredge in 40 fathom water, off the coast of South Ame- 
rica, in latitude 441 south, and found adhering to a Terebella. 
4, PuoxLAs CHILOENSIS. MOoLina. 
P. testd elongata posticé ovato-rotundatd, costis posticis dentato-muri- 
catis ; anticé attenuatd striis transversis postice undato-muricatis, 
anticé muticis ; lat, 5; long. 2; poll. 
Habitat ad insulam Chiloei. Mus. Brit., nost., Brod., Stokes. 
Some doubt has been thrown upon the existence of this shell notwith- 
standing the description uf Molina. A species very nearly approaching 
* Elminius Kingii, Gray in Zoo}, Miscell. from a specimen collected during 
the voyage.—Ed. 
