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page 5 of this supplement, but which was deftitute r^^the 

 foot-ftalk ; this addition therefore cdm^iieats the defcnpn m, 

 and corre6l'^ the error in the colouring o^ the fi'^nre owen 

 in tlic Brili/b Shells, whicli couM only be imagmarv, a ''the 

 author acknowledges he never had fjund it. and there is 

 nothing in ihc defcription originally given by Elds iliat 

 could induce an opinion that the peduncle was of an orange 

 colour. 



It is a curious circumftance that this fpecies, originally 

 difcovered by Mr. Ellis at lealt thirty two years ago, and 

 probably much before that period, fliould never b ve been 

 iubfequenlly noticed by any conchologill, nor found in the 

 cabinets of collecilors, efpecially as it feems to be equally as 

 prolific, and gregarious as the more common fpecies.* It 

 is therefore realonable to conclude that it inhabits the deep 

 where the temped is not lufficieitly felt to detach it, 

 or the fubftances to which it adheres ; and th.'t fuch an ac- 

 cidental occurrence may have been caufed by the action of 

 fome large fifli. There had not been any (lorm previoufly 

 to the appearance of ihofe (hells, and in two or thrje days 

 fcarcely a veftige of them were to be found on the fhore. 



Lepas Shell confifiing of five fmall valves connected by broad 



jMembranacea. membranes, and furnifiiLd with a ftiDrt peduncle. The two 



valves on the top are linear, and project over the front, where 



Mr, Ellis's death is recorded to have taken i..acc in the ^ear 1776- 



th.y 



