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Madrepora Virginea, very young; /. pale red and white, very 

 young, on the fame kind of corat; u. fcarlet, pink, and white, with 

 long pink curved fpines, on which are three of Serpula Albida. 

 See Species 3*,; -y. the iame variety, except the Serptilse and that 

 it adheres to a Madrepora Virginea ; w. a large, broad, dark red, 

 yellow and pink, with fliort fpines on the upper, and large folia- 

 tions and long fpines on the under valve, which adheres to a 

 Madrepora Virginea. The ears are alfo thick fet with fpines; x. a. 

 beautifiil group of four fmall ones, differently coloured; j. two 

 large, one principally white, the other moftly fcarlet, naturally 

 fattened together, and to a Madrepora Virginea. Thefe are alfo 

 enriched with adhefions of Balani, a Serpula, and a fmall purple 

 variety of iS&l^^ia*' Bicolor; z. a clufter of two large fcarlet and 

 white, and a very fmall fcarlet one with other adhefions — L'Arme 

 — Armed — St. Domingo — Spondylus Gaederopus van Liiin. 

 Soland, 



1022. Croceus — Le Safran Colore^ — Saffron Coloured— Marti ^ 

 Bique — Very rare. Spondylus Gaederopus var. Linn. & Soland, 



1023. Purpureus — ^z. light coloured; ^. with a Serpula adheringi 

 c. having a foliated under valve; ^. dark coloured; e. dark colour- 

 ed, adhering to a Madrepora Flexuofa; _/". dark coloured, with a 

 very long beak, and adhering to an old upper valve of another 

 fhell of the fame fpecies — Le Pourpre — Purple — Mediterranean — < 

 Spondylus Gaederopus var. Linn. & S.oland. 



1024. Rufus — La Rouge et Jaune — Red and Yellow — ^EaU 

 Indies — Spondylus Gaideropus var Linn. & Soland. 



^1025. Pica — La Pie — Pied — Eail Indies—Spondylus Gaedero- 

 pus^Linn. & Soland. 



1 026. Palmatus — ^Les Pointes Applatis—Broad Spined — China — 

 Spondylus Gaderopus var. Linn, & Soland. Rare. 



1027. Virgatus — La Rayee — Striped — China — Spondylus Gae- 

 deropus var. Linn. & Soland. Rare, 



1028. Undatu s — L' Ondulee — Waved — Tranqu ebar ? — Spondy- 

 lus Gaederopus var. Linn. & Soland. Extremely fcarce. 



1029. Hyftrix — a. white and orange, mottled with black, in 

 different flages of growth, i. with a k^^beak; h. orange, large- 

 c. white, mottled and rayed with pink, natnrally fixed to a Madre- 

 pore; a young one; d. white, pink, and orange, mottled with 

 purple, and having fome of its fpines and foliae longer than ufual, 

 young; e. pale colour, v/ith purple fpines — Le Pore Epic — Por- 

 cupine — China — Spondylus Gisderopus Linn. & Soland, iisB' 



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