CONCHYLIA— ZJ/THFi?^. 36. 155 



Shell oval heart-shaped, tumid in the middle and sloping to each 

 side, with crowded transverse striae and obscure longitudinal ones, 

 the middle tooth cloven. 



Tab. nost. 9, fig. 7 and 8. 

 Venus aurea. Gmelin, Syst. p. 3288. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 236. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 212, tab. 60, fig. 1. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 129. 



Linn. Trans viii. p. 90, tab. 2. fig. 9. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 159. 



Dorset Catal. p. 36, tab. 13, fig. 3. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 207. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 247- 

 Venus geographica. Gmelin. Syst. p. 3293. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 241. 



Chemnitz, vii. p. 45, tab. 42, fig. 440. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 203. 

 Tellina fasciata. Lister, Conch, tab. 404, fig. 249. 

 Mus. nost. Devonshire and Cornish coasts. 



Shell an inch long, and an inch and a quarter broad, thin, convex 

 in the middle, and rounded at both the ends, but more produced at 

 the anterior side, thickly striate transversely, and very obscurely in 

 a longitudinal direction ; the margin sometimes a little flexuous near 

 the anterior end: color yellowish-white, more or less deeply tinged 

 with golden yellow, and marked with blackish brown or blueish zig- 

 zag lines or stripes, variously disposed and sometimes confluent or 

 crossing each other : beaks nearer one end, with a broad areola un- 

 der them. 



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