172 CONCHYLIA— DiT/fri?^. 39. 



piiosus. Pectttncdlus testd orbiculari convexd oequilaterali, maculis longitudi- 

 nalibus. 

 Shell orbicular convex ec[uilateral, with the colored marks disposed 

 longitudinally. 



Tab. nost. 12, fig. 2. 

 Area pilosa. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1 143. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3314. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 256. 



Pennant, p. 217, tab. 61, fig. 1. 



Montagu, p. 136, and Suppl. p. 53. 



lAnn. Trans, viii. p. 94, tab. 3. fig. 4. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 160. 



Dorset Catal. p. 36, tab. 11, fig. 2. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 242. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 6. 



Chemnitz, vii. p. 231, tab. 57, fig. 565, 566. 

 Area minima. Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 8. Young. 



Area Glycymeris. Donovan British Shells, ii. tab. 37. 

 Glycymeris orbicularis. Da Costa, p. 168, tab. 11, fig. 2. 

 Pectunculus ingens. Lister, Conch, tab. 247, fig. 82. 

 Mus. nost. Western coasts, and British Channel. 



Shell from one to three inches in diameter, thick, strong and con- 

 vex, quite round and exactly equilateral, white or rufous, with zigzag 

 red or purplish streaks disposed longitudinally, more or less clothed 

 with a dark brown silky skin. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Goodall we have conviction, that 

 the Area minuta of our Conchological Dictionary is the very fry 



