DESCRIPTION. 
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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. 
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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 
