60 LEPAS. 



CORNUCOPIA BARNACLE. 

 PL 10./. 2. Mrs. Mawe. 



33. Lepas Pollicipes. L. testa compresso-erecta, multivalvi lavi ; pedun- 

 culo coriaceo, brevi, duro, squamoso insidente. Linn. Gmel. p. 3213. 



Shell compressed, erect, many valved, smooth ; seated on a short, hard, 

 scaly, coriaceous foot-stalk. 



Anatifa Pollicipes. A. testa compressa, valvis qvindecim et ultra levibus 

 difformibus, intestino granulato squamoso. Brug. Encycl. Meth. 

 Hist. Nat. torn. 6. p. 65. 



Lister, Syn. Conch, t. 439. f. 281. Ellis, Phil. Trans, vol. 50. p. 850. 

 pi. 34. f. 4. Knor. Vergn. torn. 5. pi. 13. f. 7. D Argenville, 

 Conch, pi. 30. f. E. ejusd. Zoom. pi. 7. f. 6. Favanne, Conch. 

 pi. 57. f. B. 1. item pi 74. f. G. 1. Chemn. Conch. 8. pi. 100. f. 851, 

 852. Encyclop. Method, pi. 166. f. 10, 11. Mont. Test. Brit. 

 Suppl. p. 6. pi. 28. f. 5. 



This shell, like the preceding species, has eight 

 principal valves, besides many of a smaller size. Those 

 at the base are placed in a very irregular manner, and 

 some of them are as small as seed pearls. The four 

 large valves, which are smooth and of the colour and 

 appearance of horn, turn towards each other like the 

 beak of a bird. The shell in all its parts is thick and 

 solid; the valves are more or less convex, and connected 

 together by a blackish membrane. 



The pedicle, or foot stalk, is thick and short, rarely 

 exceeding an inch and a half in length. It is of a 

 bluish ash-colour and studded with little points, or 

 scales, which give it the appearance of shagrin. 



Groups of these shells, sometimes of more than 

 twenty in a cluster, are found in the Mediterranean, 

 and on the coast of Spain. They are also so abundant 

 on the shores of Brittany, and Normandy, that they are 

 sold as an article of food in the neighbouring towns and 

 villages, where they are boiled in water and eaten with 



