CONCHYLIA— D/THYE^. 36. 149 



the interstices between tbem are finely striate longitudinally. It is 

 also much thinner, and of an uniform pale brown color. 



Venus testa trigono- cordatd, antice productd, striis transversis con- (iMin-d. 



fertis incurvis, areola striata. 

 Shell triangular heart-shaped, produced at the anterior end, with 

 crowded transverse incurved strise, and the areola striate. 

 Tah. nost. 9, fig. 2. 

 Venus Gallina. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1130. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3270. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 220. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 311, tab. 30, fig. 308, 309. 



Pennant, iv. p. 205, tab. 59, fig. 2. 



Linn. Trans, vi. tab. 17, fig. 7 and 8. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 82. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 157. 



Dorset Catal. p. 35, tab. 8. fig. 2. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 168. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 234. 

 Venus striatula. Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 113. 



Donovan, British Shells, ii. tab. 68. 

 Pectunculus strigatus. Da Costa, p. 191, tab. 12, fig. 2. 

 Pectunculus fuscus. Lister, Conch, tab. 282, fig. 120. 

 Mus. nost. On most sandy coasts. 



Shell about an inch long, and an inch and a quarter broad, obli- 

 quely produced at the cartilage side in a nearly straight line to an 

 angular point ; white, yellowish or fawn-color, rarely without marks, 

 mostly with white or pale broad longitudinal rays, and minute zig- 



