PLATE CLXX. 



VENUS FASCIATA. 



FASCIATED VENUS SHELL. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Hinge furnifhed, with three teeth, two near each other, the third 



divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell somewhat heart-shaped, white, fasciated with brown : ridges 

 large, broad, depressed, of regular thickness at both extremities. 



Venus fasciata: testa subcordata alba fusco-fasciata sulcis crassis 



latis depressis regularibus continuis. 



Pectunculus parvus, planior, crassus dense fasciatus. Fasciated : Da 



Costa, p. 188. sp. 25. Tab. 13. Jig. 3. 



This elegant shell occurs very rarely on the coasts of this country ; 

 we have observed it sparingly distributed on the sands near Tenby, 

 in Pembrokeshire. Da Costa says, he was informed that it is found 

 near Bangor, among the rocks from Bangor Ferry to Anglesea, in 



