CONCHYLIA— D/THYi?^. 25. 83 



Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 23T. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 46, tab. 4, fig. 30. 



Donovan, British Shells, ii. tab. 50. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 48. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 44. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 148. 



Dorset Catal. p. 28, tab. 4, fig. 3. 



Wood, Conch, p. 122, tab. 28, fig. 1, 2. 



Dillwyn, Descrijit. Catal. p. 59. 



Turton, Couch. Diet. p. IGO. 

 Solen curvus. Lister, Conch, tab. 411, fig. 257. 



Mus. nost. Ou most sandy coasts. 



Shell about half an inch long, and three or four inches broad, 

 linear and very narrow in proportion to its length, diagonally di- 

 vided, with one of the triangles marked with purple and white 

 bands : both the extremities rounded. 



Linne doubted whether this species were not a mere variety of 

 Solen Siliqua. And in his description of it in the Mus. Lud. Ulr. 

 p. 473, he has committed a small oversight, making the extremities 

 rounded in one part of the description and truncate in another : 

 utrdque extremitate truncatd, and extremitas utraque rotundato. 



Solen testa suharcuatd, valvd altera hidentatd, alterd tridentatd dente peiiuciaus, 

 medio bipartito. **• 



Shell slightly curved, in one valve two teeth, in the other three, the 

 middle one of which is deeply divided. 



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