4. Acasta. Three species.

Found in sponge, from which, when detached, it cannot stand erect on

account of the convexity of the base.

Shell oval, sub-conic, shaped like a Patella, with six lateral unequal

valves slightly connected; operculum with four valves.

Acasta Montagui.

A. glans.

A. sulcata.

_A. Montagui._ Montague’s Acasta.

Valves erect, triangular, acute, with muricated ascending spines.

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