PLATE XXXVI. 



FIG. I. 

 LEPAS INTERTEXTA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Triton. Shell of many unequal valves : affixed by a stem. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell rather depressed and ribbed obliquely. 



Lepas Intertexta : testa subdepressa oblique costata. 

 Lepas striata. Penn. Br. Zool. t. 38. f. 7. 

 Walker tejl. min. rar. f. 87. 



This rare fpecies is the Lepas intertexta of the Portland Museum ; 

 it was fifhed up at Weymouth, adhering to a valve of the Ostrea fub- 

 rufus. 



The shells of this genus are in general very complex in structure, 

 the present is particularly so. Several shells of the natural size is re- 

 presented on the orange space of the Ostrea, Fig. I. — Three figures 

 are added to exhibit their magnified appearance ; to distinguish these, 

 the space is coloured green. 



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