152 CONCHYLIA— D/THTEJ. 36. 



Venus substriata. Montagu, Suppl. p. 48. tab. 29, fig. 6. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 21 [. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 245, 

 Dredged up in the Firth of Forth 



Shell half an inch long, and rather more in breadth, transversely 

 oval, white, thin, with concentric wrinkles and obscure waved lon- 

 gitudinal striae : beaks nearer to one end, small, turning a little to 

 one side. 



senea. Venus testa ovatd, antic^ elongato-attenuatd, striis transversis crehria 

 longitudinalibusque obsoletis, dentibus duobus Jissis. 

 Shell oval, taper and elongated at the anterior .side, with crowded 

 transverse strife and obscure longitudinal ones, two of the teeth 

 cloven. 



Tab. nost. 10, fig. 7. 

 Venus aenea. Turton, Conch Diet. p. 248, fig 20. 



Mus. nost. From Clontarf, in Dublin bay. 



Shell an inch long, and an inch and a half broad, white covered 

 with a shining bronzed skin, oval, convex, rounded at one end, 

 regularly tapering and much produced at the other without forming 

 any angle; with regular close-set transverse striae, and minute 

 longitudinal lines : beaks much pointed, curved, near the larger end, 

 with an elongated areola under them : teeth strong, two of them 

 cloven in one valve, and one in the other. 



