6 SOLENIDiE. 



of having neglected the writings of my own countrymen, 

 and of having thus caused some confusion or inconve- 

 nience to those who study the European Mollusca. I 

 do not regret the trouble I have taken in making this 

 concordance, hoping and believing that it will save the 

 labour of my fellow- workmen. Turton must have been 

 mistaken in saying that S. strigilatus had been dredged 

 in Torbay, and found by General Bingham in Cornwall, 

 and by Mrs. Loscombe in the Scilly Isles. The collec- 

 tion of that lady was sold by auction about 25 years 

 ago, when I purchased, through the late Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby, all the supposed British Shells contained in it. 

 Among them were specimens of S. strigilatus and many 

 other undoubtedly Mediterranean species, as well as a 

 few from the Arctic seas. S. strigilatus is a much 

 larger shell than S. candidus, and usually rose-coloured 

 with two white rays. 



2. S. antiqua' tus*, Pulteney. 



Solen antiquatus, Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 28, pi. iv. f. 5. Solecurttis coarctatus, 

 F. & H. i. p. 259, pi. xv. f. 3, and (animal) pi. I. f. 5. 



Body rather compressed, entirely white : mantle having its 

 edges fringed with short cirri : tabes capable of being inflated 

 to three times their ordinary diameter, united for a considerable 

 distance from their bases, and separate at their extremities ; 

 orifice of the branchial tube cirrous, that of the excretory one 

 plain : gills partly lodged in the lower portion of the siphonal 

 sheath, the upper pair much shorter than the other : palps 

 distinctly pectinated within, and less so on the outside : foot 

 thick and fleshy. 



Shell elliptical, with an oblique outline, compressed through- 

 out, but especially in the middle, solid, opaque, slightly glossy : 

 sculpture, numerous and irregular concentric stria?, and minute 

 longitudinal lines like those in S. candidus, but much less 

 distinct ; the surface is also covered with equally minute and 



* Decayed. 



