564- Anbmia corondta. 



by the hook, and rescued from destruction in a singular 

 manner. The first from which our figure is taken was des- 

 tined for a tobacco-box ; the second had the honour of holding 

 the grease belonging to the boat establishment; and the third, 

 " Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon," 

 was inspected alive for several days by the officers and mem- 

 bers of a modern philosophical society (all of them unconscious 

 of its value), and, after amusing them by squirting water to 

 the ceiling, was at last seen by a learned friend, purchased for 

 a trifle, and generously placed in our cabinet. The animal 

 we have not seen, but the colour is black. 



AnVmia corona n ta Mihi. {fig. 52.) 

 Shell above six lines long and four broad, oval, glossy, 

 and of a pale amber colour; upper valve concave, smooth, 

 with a rather undulating surface. Beak pointed, but not ter- 

 minal ; above which are three or four rows of 

 spines, the outer ones extending beyond the sheli, 

 giving it a coronated appearance. The under, or 

 perforated, valve convex, with an irregular surface, 

 and a few indistinct traces of longitudinal striae. 

 We have only found one specimen. The spines 

 on the upper valve will readily distinguish this species 

 from all its congeners. Unfortunately, they are so fragile and 

 perishable, that only few and faint traces of their former beauty 

 and integrity now remain. 



Dr. Turton, in his British Bivalves, describes eleven species 

 of Anomia; and Mr. Sowerby, in his Genera of recent and 

 fossil Shells, reduces them to two or three at most ; but we 

 are convinced that more than twice the number Mr. Sowerby 

 mentions are to be found attached to the rocks, shells, and 

 corallines of the Scarborough coast. 

 Scarborough, Feb. 13. 1835. 



The Vagiiri, from their habits, are often useful to the Con- 

 chologist. — I have known those species which inhabit shells 

 that are found only in the deepest seas, enter our fish-pots, 

 and thus present the conchologist an opportunity of obtaining 

 specimens of shells not otherwise to be procured. — [Lans- 

 down Guilding. St. Vincent, May 1. 1830. He had made 

 the note in connexion with a notice in J I. 154. of the Paguri 

 and certain other animals impropriating empty univalve shells.] 



