PLATE XLII.. 



FIG. I. 

 VENUS EXOLETA. 



ANTlStUATED. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two near each other* 

 the third divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



-Subrotund. Wrought transversely with numerous regular and minute 



striae, margins smooth. 



Venus Exoleta : testa Ientiformi transversim striata pallida, ob- 

 solete radiata, ano cordato. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. 

 p. 1134. No. 142. 

 Concha testa subrotunda : striis transversis innumeris, margine lasvi, 

 F. Suec. 1, p. 383, No. 1342. 

 Pecrunculus rostro productiore, capillaceis fasciis donatus. List. 

 H> Conch, tab. 290. fg. 126. — P. dense fasciatus, ex rubro variega- 

 tus et undatus. Tab. 291. Jig. 127. — P. crassus, dense fasciatus, 

 leviter ex rufo variegatus. Tab. 292. Jig. 128. — P. subfuscus tenuiter 

 admodurn fasciatus. Tab. 293. Jig. 129, P. planus, crassus, ex- 

 rufo radiatus. Tab. 299. Jig. 1 36. 



Concha marina valvis aequalibus asquilatera, notabiliter umbonata 

 et oblique incurvata, subrotunda, vulgaris, striis densissimis et pro- 

 fondis transversim striata et exasperata, Candida leviter ex fusco vari- 

 egata et radiata. Gualt. 1. Conch, tab. 75. fg. F. 



