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Ostrea cinnaharina, Born. Mus.p. 103. DiUw. Catal. p. 256. 



Pecten pealeii, Conrad. Marine Conch. p. 12, pi. 2,/. 2. Lister, 

 Conch, pi 1057, fig. 4. (The ears are represented as being equal.) 

 Seba, Mas. pi. 87, fig. 1. Olaffsen, Voyage, pi. 10, fig. 1, 

 {Huitre.^ 



Desc. Shell with very numerous, elevated somewhat scaly ra- 

 diating lines, alternately smaller, increasing in number according 

 to the growth of the shell to upwards of an hundred ; intervals re- 

 ticulated ; ears unequal, beneath the emarginated one are five or 

 six little teeth ; valves not very unequal, of a reddish or orange 

 color, with many concentric or darker bands and about three paler 

 radii; on the flatter valve the colors are much paler; edge jagged 

 with the produced elevated lines ; within the convex valve is a 

 large purplish spot, sometimes occupying a considerable portion of 

 the surface. 



Ohs. Several fine specimens were sent to me a few years since 

 by Dr. Harris, who obtained them from Dr. Bass of Boston ; they 

 were taken by fishermen in Chaleur's bay, New Brunswick. Dr. 

 Storer has not yet found it near Boston. 



Mr. T. Peale presented a specimen, which he found on the coast 

 of Maine. According to Dillwyn it has been found on the coast 

 of Scotland, and Banks procured one from the stomach of cod fish 

 f)n the banks of Newfoundland. The late Mr. S. Coates of Phila- 

 delphia had an individual in his collection, which was drawn up 

 on the lead by Capt. Coffin, in fifty-two fathoms water, on the 

 eastern edge of the banks of Newfoundland in latitude 45 deg. 

 40 min. Linne obtained it at West Gothland, and Olaffsen in 

 Iceland. 



It varies much in depth of coloring, and one in my collection 

 has the convex valve dark purplish both within and without, des- 

 titute of bands, and the opposite valve is tinted with purplish 

 within on the upper half Mr. Peale's specimen is more of an 

 uniform dull orange both within and without, and with but little 

 appearance of bands. PI. 56, fig. la. 



Peoten dislocatus, S., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scl. vol. 2, p. 260. 



Encycl Meth.,pl. 213,/. 3. 



Ohs. The specimen represented in the annexed plate I obtained 

 on the coast of South Carolina, where it is rare. I do not know 

 tliat the figure referred to above has been quoted by any author 



