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PATELLA. 
92. Patella imbricata: fhell entire, oblong, imbricate, 
the crown placed behind. 
93. Patella mammillaris: fhell entire, conic, ftriate, 
fubdiaphanous, with a reflected fmooth crown. This is 
defcribed and figured by Pennant, and it inhabits the 
fhores of the Mediterranean and Africa. 
94. Patella tricarinata : fhell fubftriate, with three ribs 
on the fore-part. 
93. Patella pe&inata : fhell entire, ovate, with wrinkled 
flightly-branched ftriae; crown nearly central, reflected, 
and pointed. It is found on the fhores of the Mediter¬ 
ranean, and is about two inches long. 
96. Patella lutea: fhell entire, oval, convex, ftriate, 
with a fub-marginal, refle£ted, mucronate crown. It in¬ 
habits divers parts of India, and is about the fize of a 
melon-feed. 
97. Patella criftata : crown revolute; back crefted, ca¬ 
rinate. 
98. Patella lacuftris: fhell very entire, oval, membra¬ 
nous, with a nearly-central, mucronate, reflected, fhell. 
It inhabits the frefh waters of Europe. 
99. Patella fluviatilis : fhell very entire, oval, a little 
horny, with a marginal mucronate crown ; aperture oval. 
This is very like the laft 5 and inhabits, like it, the frefh 
waters of Europe. 
100. Patella caeca, the blind limpet: fhell entire, with 
elevated dots, and ftriate ; crown acute, ftraight. Found 
in the bays of Norway, on ftones. The fhell is white, 
with from fixty to eighty Arise ; the inhabitant is white, 
ovate, without the lead appearance of eyes. A magni¬ 
fied view of the fhell is given on the annexed Plate, at 
fig. 9. and of the blind inhabitant, of the natural fize, at 
fig. 10. This and the three following fpecies are figured 
from the Zoologia Danica. 
101. Patella virginea: fhell very entire, white, with 
red bars. This is found on fuci in the bays of Norway. 
The fhell is reprefented of the natural fize at fig. n. and 
the animal at fig. 12. 
102. Patella teffelata : fhell very entire, of a whitifh co¬ 
lour tefi’elated with red. Found on the rocks and fuci 
about Norway. The fhell with the inhabitant is fhown 
at fig. 13. the empty fhell at fig. 14. 
103. Patella fulva, the red limpet: fhell very entire, 
orange, with a mucronate and nearly vertical crown. It 
inhabits Norway, on fuci, and teftaceous fubftances. See 
fig. 15. 
104. Patella fubfpiralis: fhell ovate, with an obtufe fub- 
fpiral tip. Found in Norway. 
105. Patella ambigua: fhell ovate, with a flightly 
toothed margin, and a rather acute and reflected point. 
Inhabits Norway. 
106. Patella rubicunda : fhell very entire, rather co¬ 
nical, fmooth, and reddifh. It inhabits the deeps of 
Greenland. 
107. Patella Borniana: fhell ovate, very entire, with 
very fine longitudinal ftriae, white, with red veins. 
108. Patella calyptra : fhell entire, with imbricate ribs; 
the crown is hooked ; the margin finuate. Inhabits 
North America. 
109. Patella melanoleuca: fhell ftriate, very entire: 
alternately black and white. 
no. Patella peftunculus: fhell oblong, convex, with 
elevated nodulous ftriae, flightly toothed, within polifhed ; 
crown curved forwards. 
in. Patella fafciata : fhell ovate, white with a brown 
band, and elevated acute ftriae; the margin is dilated, 
crenate, and cinereous within. 
112. Patella elegans : fhell with decufl'ate ftriae, white 
radiate with red, denticulate ; crown grey. 
113. Patella fquamofa : fliell with elevated ftriae, tranf- 
verfely undulate on the outfide, brown, filvery towards 
the margin, crown bronzed, hooked. 
114. Patella fqualida : fhell entire, brown, within whi¬ 
tifh with a bluifli bottom; the margin bluifit, radiate 
with brown, with elevated obfolete ftriae; crown knotty. 
113. Patella crocea : fhell fmooth, fubangular, yellow, 
radiate with brown 5 crown obtufe, white ; bottom with 
a whitifh fpot. 
116. Patella Candida: fhell ovate, fmooth, on both 
fides white, with a rofy belt on the outfide. 
117. Patella trigona: fhell compreffed, convex in the 
middle, cancellate, white, with a brownifh band on the 
outfide, and margin within ; crown marginal, obtufe. 
118. Patella minima: fliell rounded, convex, thin, 
fmooth, whitifh, with reddifh fpots; crown very obtufe, 
and white. It inhabits Ferroe ifland. 
119. PatellaTranquebarica : fhell ovate, thin, pellucid, 
with very fine crowded ftriae, chefnut with white fcales ; 
within milk white, with a brown fpot at the bottom ; the 
crown is marked with an azure fpot. It inhabits Tran- 
quebar, as its name imports. 
120. Patella perverfa: fhell oblong, horny, very thin, 
pellucid, glabrous, with a ferruginous bafe. It is found 
in Africa. The point of the crown is bent back towards 
the hind parts of the fnail. 
121. Patella cernua : fhell with decufl'ate grooves, thin, 
pale flefh-colour, with an oblong aperture. 
122. Patella incurva: fliell entirely white, flat; point 
of the crown twifted. 
123. Patella interrupta: fliell oval, deprefled, glabrous, 
brownifh, with green dots difpofed in oblique interrupted 
rays: crown with an obtufe hook. 
IV. Integerrima. Very entire, and not pointed at the tip 
or crown. 
124. Patella afra : fhell conic, ftriate, greenifh, or pale 
brown, within white; crown glabrous, white, obtufe, 
central; margin glabrous. It inhabits the ifland of 
Goree. 
125. Patella Lufitanica : fhell conic, white, with 
brown rays marked with ftriae, granulate with black; 
crown acute, not radiate, and furrounded with a chefnut 
ring. It inhabits Portugal, on the fea-rock ; and is very 
fmall. 
126. Patella radiata: fhell rounded, convex, grey, 
with decufl'ate ftriae ; crown pointed, central, and marked 
with twelve orange radiate lines ; the bottom is horny.. 
It inhabits Jamaica. See Conchology Plate I. fig. 8. 
127. Patella areolata; fhell pyramidal, reddifh-grey, 
with very thin circular ftriae, crofted by longitudinal, 
ones ; crowned violet. It refembles the P. Magellanica 
of a former feftion, but is more deprefled, and broader at 
the bafe. 
128. Patella flammea: fliell ovate, with very fine an¬ 
nulate ftriae, reddifh-grey, with undulate brown rays ; the 
crown is acute, central, white in the middle. 
129. Patella Indica: fhell reddifh-grey, with radiate 
ftriae; glabrous, narrower on one fide; crown acute, 
fmooth, furrounded with a reddifh ring. It inhabits In¬ 
dia, is nearly four inches long, and refembles the P. ruf- 
tica, to be defcribed hereafter. 
130. Patella Surinamenfis : fliell thick, fubovate, yel- 
lowilh, with black rays, and longitudinal unequal ftriae, 
and furrounded with knotty belts; crown obtufe, fmooth, 
and white. It inhabits Surinam. 
131. Patella vitellina: fhell ovate, yellow, with an un¬ 
equally ftriate bafe, and obtufe whitifh crown. 
132. Patella fanguinolenta : fhell ovate, convex, white, 
folid, with intermixed, capillary, and flexuous, elevated 
longitudinal ftriae ; the crown is furrounded with a broad 
ring, dotted with red. It is found in Africa. 
133. Patella laevigata : fliell ovate, yellow, within blu- 
ifh-white, with oblique ftriae, the crown is white, fmooth, 
and polifhed. 
134. Patella pun&ulata: fhell rounded, white, with 
many-coloured dots, radiate towards the bafe, and fur¬ 
rounded with two brown rings. 
135. Patella pellucida: fliell very entire, ovate, gib¬ 
bous, pellucid, with four blue rays. This is defcribed 
and figured by Donovan, Pennant, Lifter, and others. It 
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