Note 92 — Section C.

I have very little doubt regarding any of these references: I have no means of ascertaining the priority, within the same year, of Gmelin and Bruguière, but have given it to the latter, as perforatus is much the best known specific name. English conchologists seem generally to suppose that the B. communis of Pulteney and Montagu is the B. porcatus of this work; but I have not the smallest doubt that I have given it rightly as a synonym of the present species; the indistinctness of the compartments, the multitude of fine ridges, the smallness of the orifice, the longitudinal furrow on the terga, the colour, size, and habitat, all given by Pulteney or Montagu, will agree with no other British species. The Lepas balanus of Poli, which is certainly a synonym of our present species, has been erroneously considered by several authors to be the same with the L. balanoides of Poli, which latter undoubtedly is the B. amphitrite of this work.