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the cardinal teeth straight.—Variety. Larger, wider and white. 
1.—South Seas. 
V. Gauactites. Lam. 52. Elongated ovate, rather angulated 
anteriorly, white, subdecussated, the longitudinal grooves being the 
more apparent ; no lunule: hinge with the teeth erect. 24.—New 
Holland. 
V. Exruis. Lam. 53. Oblong elliptic, the posterior side very 
short and without alunule; rather convex, thin, pellucid white, 
antiquated by very fine transverse and indistinct longitudimal 
strie. 4. 
V. Scatartrna. Lam. 54.—Del. t. 10. f. 12. Somewhat 
heart-shaped, depressed, whitish with the beaks violet, with 
numerous elevated transverse sulci, which are marked with small 
fulvous articulated spots; lunule lanceolate, anterior slope glabrous, 
nymphe gaping. 14.— South Seas.—Allied to Aphrodina. 
V. Aurea.* Mont. t.129.—Gmel. 3288.—D. p. 207.—Lam. 
56.—Turt. Biv. t. 9. f. 7, 8.—List. t. 404. f. 249.—W. t. 8. 
f. 111.—Ovate, obtusely heart-shaped, tumid in the middle, and the 
ventral margin much rounded; yellowish white with usually fine 
brownish zigzag lines, close concentric striee and obsolete longi- 
tudinal ones; lunule defined by a groove and ovate-oblong: 
golden yellow within. 1..14. W. Europe. 
V. Vireinea.* Lam. 57.—An eadem. Lin. 1134?—D. p. 
207.—W. t. 8. f. 110.—Ch. f. 457.—Lin. Tr. 8. t. 2. f. 8.— 
Turt. B. t.8. f. 8. Ovate, obliquely subangulated at the anterior 
extremity and when adult with an obsolete angle from the beaks 
to that margin, mottled with whitish and reddish, the less pre- 
vailing colour forming zigzags which are sometimes disposed in 
rays, and marked with concentric groovelike striz which become 
coarser at the anterior extremity which is the more tumid: ventral 
margin obtuse: lunule oblong: inside often with a tinge of pink. 
23.— Europe. 
V. Marmorata. Lam. 58.—Del. t.10.f.13. Ovate, trans- 
versely grooved, white mottled with fulvous and rufous, the beaks 
small white and a little stellated; the anterior slope large, violet 
brown and lineolated; lunule oval-oblong, with its apex violet 
brown: white within. 12.—S. Hurope. 
V. Laterisutca. Lam. 60. Somewhat heart-shaped, with 
transverse grooves, which in the middle become indistinct strie : 
reddish, spotted with whitish, and with rufous at the anterior 
slope : posterior depression, oval oblong: white within. 72. 
V. Pineuis. Chemnitz. f. 335, 6, 7.—D. p. 181.—E£. t. 266. 
f: 3.—V. Oprma. G mel. 3279.—Lam. 62.—W. t. 7. f. 50.— 


1 V. Scorica. am. 55, isa Crassina. 
