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beaks ; inside white, with purple spots on the hinge margin. 13.— 
New Folland. 
V. ApHropvina. Lam. 80.—Del. t. 11. f. 1.  Obliquely heart- 
shaped, more or less conical, with more or less raised transverse 
striz, glossy; anterior depression glabrous, lunule when distinct 
elongated heart-shaped ; inside white, with a bluish stain anteriorly. 
—Var. A. Greyish fulvous.— Var. B. (Conutaris. Lam. 78.— 
Del. t. 11. f. 4.) bluish or purplish violet within and without.— 
Var. C. (Stricosa. Lam.79.) uniform pale fulvous, or with rufous 
simple or grouped lines. 
V. Peronir. Lam. 81. Ovate heart-shaped, whitish, and 
transversely grooved, the interstices flattened, and the beaks smooth; 
posterior depression oval and violet; orange within, with two 
purplish black spots. 12.—New Holland. 
V. Frammea. Lam. 84.—Gmel. 3278.—D. p. 174 ?—Scehre. 
Ein. in Conch. t. 8. f. 12.—W. t. 7. f. 37. Somewhat heart-shaped, 
transversely grooved, whitish, with angular chesnut lines ; beaks 
smooth ; posterior depression oblong ; within white with a slight 
tinge of orange under the beaks. 11.—Red Sea. 
V. Unputosa. Lam. 85. Triangular, nearly smooth, having 
only fine transverse strize, whitish with very delicate crowded waved 
transverse rufous zigzag lines; posterior depression oblong and 
reddish. 14.—New Holland. 
V. Pumirta. Lam. 86. Rounded ovate, thin, greyish white, 
spotted or rayed with brown, transversely striated, and the anterior 
slope short and narrow ; posterior depression lanceolate ; yellowish 
within.—Cettes in the Mediterranean. 
V. Ineuinata. Lam. 88.—An.V. Trianeuraris. Lin. Tr. 8. 
p. 83? Rounded heart-shaped, tumid, yellowish-white and soiled, 
with the beaks prominent and smooth, and the rest of the shell 
marked with concentric strize, and extremely fine longitudinal ones. 
1.— Cherbourg. Is not this a repetition of V. Ovata ? 
V. Gemma. Totten. Sil. J. t. 26. f. 2.—Gould. Mas. p. 88. 
Jf. 51. Small, sub-orbicular, longer than broad, sub-equilateral, 
shining, with minute concentric crowded furrows, violet and white ; 
teeth divergent, the central one in each valve stout and triangular, 
the posterior in one valve and the anterior in the other thin and not 
easily distinguished. 3. . .3,.—U. States. 

1 It is stated by Deshayes that V. ApHRopiNoIDES. Lam. 82. 
—Del. t. 11. f.2.—W. S. t. 2. f.. 10. ts but a variety of this 
species. The characters are—shell somewhat heart-shaped, ob- 
liquely conic, with numerous transverse grooves, whitish spotted 
internally with violet. 14.—New Holland. 
