DESCRIPTION. 167 



Inhabits Europe, India, and the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



The figure given in the plate is not an entire 

 specimen, but a part only, to show the general 

 appearance of the species. 



PLATE XXIII. 



Fig. 1. Buccinum Lepas. 



Shell oval ; transversely ribbed, longitudinally 

 and transversely striate ; ribs imbricate and tuber- 

 culate ; spire small ; aperture large, patulous. 



D' Argenville Conch. Tab. 2. Fig. D. 



Specimen brown, paler, and clouded with white 

 towards the apex, darker towards the margin ; ribs 

 spotted with white ; inside white, margin brown, 

 crenate with two teeth on the lower part; colu- 

 mellar lip flattened, projecting, somewhat revolute. 



Inhabits Chili and the Falkland Islands. 



This singular shell, which is denominated 

 Patella Lepas by Gmelin, has been selected as 

 a remarkable instance of doubtful generic character. 

 Conchologists are far from being agreed upon its 

 proper station. Without, therefore, presuming to 



