8. 
Descriptive Catalogue of the British Testacea. AT 
desperti- S. testa ovali-oblonga compressiuscula, cardinis sinis- 
nus. - 
tre valve dente solitario, duplici. alterius inserto. 
Linn. Gmel. p. 3228. . a 
Pennant Brit. Zool. 4. t. AT. TER E Hina depressa. 
Chemn. Conch. 6. t. 7. f. 5980. a. b. 
_ Encyclop. Method. t. 998. f. 2. 
9. 
minutus. 
Pulteney in Hutch. Dorset. p. 29. t. 5. f. ESN RA 
Donovan Brit. Shells, t. 41. f. 2. T. variabilis. 
Montagu Test. Brit. p. 94. 
Habitat in mari. 
Testa ad 14 poll. longa, fere 24 iih; alba radiis roseis vel purpurascentibus 
a: cardine ad marginem divergentibus, transversim snae, intus pur- 
purascens, crassiuscula, levis. 
First figured by Pennant. Found on the Dorset and 
ic Mak coasts.: 
S. testa ovali, Valvatarom angulis utrisque serratis. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. p. 1115. n. 42. Linn. Gmel. p. 3226. 
Montagu Test. Brit. p. 53. t. 1. f Å.. 
Habitat intra rupes marinas calcareas.. : 
Testa 4 poll. longa, 4 poll. lata, ovalis, striata, apice HERRES Carine a 
cardine versus apicem divergentes, acute, serrato-dentate. (Linn.) 
First noticed as British by Mr. Montagu, who found 
* 
. it burrowed in limestone at Plymouth. 
Otho Fabricius, in his Fauna Groenlandica, supposes 
the Solen minutus and Mya arctica of Linnæus to be 
the same shell; but he describes the latter as adhering 
to the roots of Alga, which does. not correspond with 
the habits of the former. The figures in Chemn. Conch. 
6. t. 6. f. 51. 52. § Lister Conch. t. 426. f 261. pe 
_sent a larger specimen than ours. 
10. squamosus. 
