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GO^^GRYLIA—DITHYRA. 36. 



virginea. 

 18. 



There is very little doubt but that the Venus aurea and Venu.s 

 geographica of authors, are the same species under different varie- 

 ties of colors, as we possess them in their intermediate states, the 

 remotest of which are figured in our plate. 



It latere antico angulato. 

 angular at the anterior end. 



Venus testa ovato-rhombed, strils transversis planatis anticS latiorihus, 



areola lanceolatd, dentibus duohus fissis. 

 Shell rhombic-oval, with transverse flat striae which are broader at 

 the anterior end, the areola lanceolate, and two of the teeth clo- 

 ven. 



Tab. nosi. 8, fig. 8. 

 Venus virginea. Linn, Syst. Nat. p. 1136. 

 Gmelin, Syst. p. 3294. 

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

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 212, tab. 58, fig. 5. 

 Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 128. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 89, tab. 2, fig. 8 

 Turton, British Fauna, p. 159. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 36, tab. 13, fig. 1. 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 207. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 246. 

 Venus edulis. Chemnits, vii. p. 60. tab. 43, fig. 457, 458. 



Cuneus fasciatus. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 204. 

 Tellina fasciata. Lister, Conch, tab. 403, 404, fig. 247, 248, 

 Var. latere antico attenuato-elongato. 



elongated and tapering at the anterior side. 



