Miscellaneous. 237 
/ Stroem (Nym: Sami. Danske, 1788, 295, n. 111, f. 20) described 
" Lepas testd. compressa 7-valvis. stipite lamellosd, found on Gorgonia 
placomus in the North Sea, which is probably allied to this genus.— 
From the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for March 14, 1848. 
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