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ties, but in this variety particularly, strongly reminds one of the 

 termination of the recurved, round-pointed table or fruit knife. The 

 foot of the animal has the same vermilion color ; and, on the whole, 

 this must be regarded as merely a variety. The pro})ortions of the 

 most elevated specimen figured by Colonel Totten are : length, four 

 fifths of an inch ; height, one inch ; width, one fourth of an inch. 



Astarte sulcata. 



Fig. 46. 



Shell ovate-triangular, the surface with deep, concentric furrows and ribs, van- 

 ishing at the extremities; beaks prominent; lunule and corselet long, narrow, 

 and deeply excavated. 



Pectunculus sulcatus, Da Costa, Brit. Conch. 192 (1778). 



Venus sulcata, Montagu, Test. Brit. 131 (1803). —Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. 203.— 



Maton and Rackett, Lin. Trans, viii. 81, pi. 2, tig. 1. — Dillwyn, Catal. i. 167. 



— Turtox, Conch. Diet. 235. 

 Astarte sulcata, Flem. Brit. Anim. 439. — Reeve, Elcm. Conch, ii. 114, fig. 186. — 



Adams, Gen. ii. 483, pL 115, fig. 6. — De Kay, Nat. Hist. New Yoriv, 221, pL 28, 

 » fig. 281. — Forbes and Hanley, Brit. MolL i. 452, pi. 30, figs. 5, 6 ; pi. 133, fig. 4; 



pi. M, fig. 5 (animal). — Sowerby, Thes. Conch, ii. 778, pi. 167, figs. 1,2,3. — 



Philippi, Ahhild. ii. 56 {Astarte), t. 1, fig. 4. — Gray, Brit. Mns. Cat. (Mollnsca) 91. 

 Venus Danmonia, Montagu, Test. Brit. Suppl. 45, t. 29, fig. 4 (1808). — Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. iv. 212. — Wood, Index, pi. 7, fig. 21. — Dillwyn, Catal. 167. 

 Vemis Danmonlensis, Blainv. Malacol. 557, pi. 75, fig. 7. 

 Crassina sulcata, Turton, Brit. Biv. 131, pi. 11, figs. 1, 2. 

 Crassina Danraonlensis, Lam. An. sans Vert- 2d cd. vi. 257. — Deshayes, Encyc. Meth. 



Vers, i. 77. — Chenu, Man. de Conch, ii. 1.30, fig. 616. 

 Astarte Danmoniensis, Sowerby, Genera, figs. 1-3; Conch. Man. fig. 110. — Totten, 



Silliman's Journ. xxviii. 349, fig. 3. — Loven, Ind. Moll. 36, 272. — Flem. Br. An. 



440. — Reeve, Conch. Syst. t. 66, figs. 1 -3. 

 Venus Scotica, Montagu, Test. Brit. Snppl. 44 (the yonng). — Maton and Rackett, 



Lin. Trans, viii. 81, pi. 2, fiy-. 3. — Turton, Conch. Diet. 236. — Wood, Lidex, pi. 



7, fig. 20. —Lam. 2d ed. vi. 360. 

 Astarte Scotica, Flem. Br. An. 44. — Loven, Ind. Moll. Scand. 36. — Philippi, Abbild. 



ii. 56 (Astarte), t. 1, fig. 3. 

 Crassina Scotica, Leach, in Ross's Voy. 175. — Turt. Br. Biv. 130, pi. 11, fitjs. 3, 4. — 



Brown, 111. pi. 18, fig. 9 ; 2d ed. 95, pi. 38, fig. 9. — IIanley, Recent Shells, i. 87. 



Shell sub-orbicular, in some specimens approaching to ovate, in 

 others to triangular, thick and strong, somewhat compressed ; iii- 

 equipartite, the anterior slope shortest and concave, bearing a long, 

 lanceolate, deeply excavated, smooth lunule ; posterior slope a 

 straight line, usually rounded, but sometimes a little truncated at 

 the hinder end, and including a very long, triangularly excavated 

 corselet ; beaks moderately elevated, pointed, and coming in con- 

 tact ; surface undulated with ten to twenty strongly developed con- 



