CONCHYLIA— i)JTffyE^. 50. 229 



Shell nearly two inches long, and one and a half broad, oblong 

 inclining to oval, rather flat, with a rough but not an undulating 

 surface ; inside more or less of a rose color, but not pearly as in the 

 Anomia Ephippium ; beaks terminal ; the under valve thin but not 

 scaly. 



Young shells have a triangular appearance, the sides being cut 

 down to an obtuse point, as in our plate ; but in surface and dirty 

 white color resemble the full grown ones. 



The figures of Chemnitz, above quoted, give an exact resemblance 

 of the full grown shell. We have as yet found only a few of them, 

 at the very lowest spring tide, near Broadsands in Torbay, where 

 their collection is of momentary opportunity, and attended with 

 some personal risk. 



Anomia testa suborbiculari, lesvi, pellucidd, corned. Squamula. 



Shell somewhat orbicular, smooth, transparent, and horn-color. ^" 



Tab. nost. 18, fig. 5, 6, 7. 

 Anomia Squamula. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1151. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3341. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. p. 281. 



Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 167. 



Chemnitz, viii. p. 86, tab. 79, fig. 696. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 156 and 561. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 102. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 163. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 232. 



Dorset Catal, p. 39, tab. 13, fig. 4. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 3. 



Walker, Minute Shells, p. 22, fig. 80. 

 Mas. nost. In old shells, on stones and Fuci. 



