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fleeted ; back valve strongly carinate or ribbed longitudi- 

 nally at the sides, and rather rounded in the middle, form- 

 ing an obtuse angle towards the bottom, the outer point of 

 which is produced and blunt, whence it becomes gradually 

 dilated to the end, which extends to the termination of the 

 Other valves arid is rounded and a little reflected, the tip- 

 per end or point reaching a little more than half w ay up 

 the shell : stalk very short, and almost entirely covered 

 with the reflected ends of the lower valves : length three 

 quarters of an inch ; breadth more than half an inch. 

 Coast, of Devonshire : very rare. v. m. 



5. Lepas cornuta. Horned Barnacle. 



Linn. Trans, xi. pi. 12. f. 1. 



Shell oval, fleshy, very slightly compressed, rounded at 

 tap, 'vvith five small testaceous white valves ; a linear-one 

 " on each side below the mouth or aperture, two small ap- 

 proximate linear curved ones above the mouth, and a very 

 .minute doraal one : on the top are seated two large erect 

 'tubular .projections, convex and mottled with brown ia 

 front, and channelled behind : stalk longer than the body, 

 ,. enlarging. to wards the base : color white, irregularly mark- 

 ed or clouded with three purplish-brown broken ionghu- 

 cmal stripes on each side, and which extend do ,vn a part of 

 the stalk : length of the body three quarters of an inch ; of 

 the tubular processes, three eighths 3 of the stalk, an inch 



a quarter. 

 From the bottom of a transport stranded on the Devon 



6. Lepas membranacea. Membranous Barnacle. 

 Linn. Trans, xi. pi. 12. f. 2. ' 

 .kapas victata. Wood> pi. 12. f. 2, 3. 



.oil somewhat oblong, gradually sloping into the stalk, 

 , obliquely truncate, at top, fleshy, tiattish, with live small 

 .wliiie testaceous valves 5 the two upper ones linear, run- 

 rather obliquely ; the two lower ones linear, with a 

 :-> hook-like process in the middle of each, projecting 

 inwardly, and curving a little upwards to a point ; the back 

 ar, gibbous in the middle, extending at top to the 

 ^nation of the upper-pair, w^sre they meet and fornxr. 

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