CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXIX. 



PATELLA JAPONICA 

 SMALL JAPAN LIMPET 



Univalve. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Shell univalve, subconic, formed like a bason, and without spire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell grey, suboval : margin somewhat angulated, back ob- 

 liquely conic, vertex slightly acute, reflected and black ; within 

 chesnut brown, margin dotted with white. 



Patella Japonica : testa grisea subovali : margine subangulato, 

 dorso oblique conico, vertice subaCuto, subreflexo 

 nigricante, intus castanea rufescente margine 

 albo-punctato. 



This elegant little Patella is from the same collection of Japanese 

 shells as Venus Pulchella in the preceding plate, and like that species 



