Note 37 — Class—CRUSTACEA. Sub-Class—CIRRIPEDIA. (continued 3)

Many authors (Poli, Montagu, &c.,) have doubted from the strangely mistaken description, viz., “ore octovalvi dentato,” whether this species could be the Lepas aurita of Linnæus. But in the Linnean Society, there is a proof plate from Ellis’s “Account of several rare Species of Barnacles,” in ‘Phil. Trans.,’ 1758, with an excellent figure of the C. aurita, and on the margin in Linnæus’s handwriting is the name Lepas aurita.