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nished with a single terminal tube^ whose office may per- 

 haps be the discharge or deposit of its eggs or spat ! " He 

 may have been, like Bellario, " a learned doctor/-* each in 

 his own profession ; and we will charitably think that 

 the physician understood the constitution of his patients 

 better than that of the Teredo. 



This species is the T. navalis of Spengler, T. bipinnata 

 of Fleming, and T. pennatifera of De Blainville. The 

 type examples of Spengler in the Royal Museum of 

 Copenhagen are composed of the valves of T. bipinnata 

 and the pallets of T. Stutchburii. 



It is very difficult to say what the T. palmulatus of 

 Lamarck may have been. He described the pallets 

 only, which are apparently the same as those of the 

 ^' Taret de Pondicheri/^ figured by Adanson in the 

 *Mem. de FAcad. Roy.' for 1759. The habitat given 

 by Lamarck is " L'ocean de grandes Indes, les mers des 

 pays chauds.'^ 



The less-known visitants are T. excavata from drift 

 fir, Guernsey (Lukis) and Sussex (Dennis); T. bipartita 

 from West-Indian cedar, Guernsey (Lukis); T. spatha, 

 with the last ; T. fusticulus from the same kind of wood, 

 at Leith (J. G. J.) These have simple pallets. T. cu- 

 cullata from drift fir, Guernsey (Lukis), and Sussex 

 (Dennis) , and from teak, with the next species, Belfast 

 (Thompson); and T. fimbriata [T. palmulata, F. & H. i. 

 p. 86, pi. ii. f. 9-11, but not of Lamarck or Philippi) 

 from teak ship-timber, Belfast (Thompson); Exmouth 

 (Clark) ; and Leith (J. G. J.) . These last have compound 

 pallets. All the above (except T. fimbriata) were fully 

 described by me in the ^Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History' for August 1860. T. spatha and T. cucullata 

 are probably West-Indian, because I received from Dr. 

 Philip Carpenter for identification specimens of both. 



