THE 
TUBERCULATED HALIOTIS, 
GENERIC character. 
Animal allied to a Slug. 
Shell ear-shaped, spreading, with obliterated 
lateral spire; the disc longitudinally perfo¬ 
rated with pores. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &€. 
HALIOTIS with subovate,transversly wrinkled, 
tuberculated shell. 
The Common HALIOTIS or Ear-shell. 
Venus’s Ear. 
The common or tuberculated Haliotis is found on 
many of the European coasts, adhering, in the manner 
of the genus Patella, to rocks. The usual colour of 
the shell on the outside is brown, sometimes varied 
either with ferruginous or greenish clouds: of the 
inside bright pearl-colour with iridescent variegations. 
