LEPAS. 
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projecting angle, and reaching below nearly to the com. 
menceraent of the stalk, which 13 as long ac the body: ec- 
lor pale blue, with three broad dark-blue stripes each side 
reaching all the way down: length of the body nearly an 
inch ; breadth about half as much. 
Variety . Of a dark horn-color, without stripes, not grs. 
dually sloping into the stalk, but terminating abruptly aid 
somewhat angularly at the bottom: it is about half tie 
size. When dry, these fleshy species become Hat, wrinkled, j 
horny, and transparent. 
On the bottom of a transport stranded on the Devon 
coast. A cluster of the variety was dredged up at fa- 
mouth, and is in the cabinet of Mrs.W. C. Lo$combe.c.si. 
6 *. Lepas Scalpellum. Penknife Barnacle . 
Montagu, pi. 1. f. 3— Wood , pi. 10. f. 3~ Drawn, 
pi. 166. f. 1— Dorset Cat. pi. 2. f. 8. 
Shell flat, thin, light brown, rather rough and wrinkled 
in some parts but without distinct strife, and covered vritk 
short hairs, obliquely truncate at top : valves thirteen; the ■ 
three next the stalk on each side small j the next two pair 
longer; the uppermost pair largest, placed a little ob j 
liquely, with the points slightly recurved; the back valve 
with transverse rows of short hairs, longer than the rut, 
flat, diverging into a sharp beak half way up, and thence, 
turning back to cover the edge of the two upper valves: J 
stalk rather large, light brown, annulate and hairy: length 1 
five eighths of an inch ; breadth three eighths. 
Sandwich, and Exmouth, on Gorgonia: rare. v. w. 
7. Lepas pollicipes. Cornucopia Barnacle. 
Lister , pi. 439. f. 281— Montagu , pi. 28. f. h—IFeod, \ 
pi. 10. f. 2. 
Shell smooth, glossy, with numerous valves; those at 
the base very small, mostly of a triangular form, to the 
amouut of twenty or more; the primary ones are five, the 
larger pair of which are rather concave, conic at the upper 
part, with an obtuse and quite straight summit ; the front 
pair oval, very convex and rounded; the back valve rather 
oval, thick, convex, and rounded : stalk about double the 
length of the shell* rather compressed, clothed with a vast , 
