PLATE XXL 



PATELLA HUNGARICA. 



LARGE fool's CAP, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, subconic, without spires. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND I 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell entire, conic, acuminated, striated, with the vertex turning down, 

 or hanging over one side. 



Patella Ungarica : testa Integra conlco acuminata striata vertice 

 hamoso revoluto. Linn. Si/st. Nat. p. 1259. 

 No. 761. 

 Patella Hungarica, Bonnet. Pemi. Br. Zool. No. 147. tab, 



90. Jig . 147. 

 Patella Integra, albescens, striata, vertlce splrall, intus rosacea. Da 



Costa, Br. Conch, p. 12. sp. 6. 

 Lepas Bonnet de Dragon, D'Avila, Cab, I. p. 86. 87. No. 32. 34. 



" This species Is only found on tlie Cornish coast, and even Is very- 

 scarce there, being most generally dredged some miles from the shore ; 

 for the Shell is so thin, that it will hardly bear rolling from its native 

 spot to the beach. It is generally found affixed to a species of escal- 

 lops, called /rz7/^, in Cornwall." Da Costa, 



