VENUS. 



Plate XII. 



Species 38. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Venus affinis. I'en. testa subtrigoiio-ovnt.d,crassii, alhiild, 

 ri(fo-brii>tnm internipte radiatd et maculatd, coucen- 

 trice laminato-costatd, costis conspicue rejlexis, ad 

 latus podicum fornicatis, deinde interriipte sulcatis, 

 area Ugamenti lata, plana, fiisco vdiinte Uneari-lenii- 

 ginosd. 



The allied Venus. Shell somewhat triangularly ovate, 

 thick, whitish, interruptedly blotched and rayed with 

 red-brown, concentrically laminately ribbed, ribs con- 

 spicuously reflected, vaulted, then interruptedly 

 grooved on the posterior side, ligamentary area 

 broad, flat, minutely linearly freckled with brown. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch, part xiv. p. 730. pi. 155. f. 63. 



Hab. Senegal. 



Allied to V. paplda, but of a more oblong form, with 

 somewhat of the colouring of V. rosalina. 



Species 39. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cuming.) 



Venus Lamarckii. Ven. testd ovatd, arcuate sublrigoiid, 



albidd, roseo-fusco maculatd el Urigatd, concentrice 



Jimbriato-costatd, fimbriii elegauter pUcatis et recurvis, 



radiatim liratd, latere postico subattenuato ; ititus 



rosaced. 



Lajiaeck's Venus. Shell ovate, arcuately subtriangular, 

 whitish, blotched and streaked with rose-bi'owu, con- 

 centrically fimbriately ribbed, frills elegantly puckered 

 and recurved, radiately ridged, posterior side slightly 

 attenuated ; tinged with rose within. 



Gray, Sowerby, Thes. Conch, part \\\. p. 707. pi. 153. 

 f. 20, 31. 

 Venus cancellata, var., Chemnitz. 



Hab. China. Wide Bay, East Australia ; Strange. 



This well-known China species was figured by Chemnitz 

 as a variety of F. cancellata, and a figure of it in the 

 ' Encyclopedic Methodique ' was eiToneously referred to 

 by Lamarck in illustration of his V. subroatrata, which is 

 a West Indian species. The sculpture is most elaborately 

 fretted. In the interior the valves are tinged towards 

 the umboes with rose. 



Species 40. (Fig. a, h, Mus. Cuming.) 



Venus verrucosa. Ve/i. testa suhcordato-ovatd, soli- 

 diusc/ild, fuscescente-albd, rosaceo-fusco plus minus 

 obscure tinctd et liueari-niidald, concentrice costatd et 

 liratd, costis lirisque confertis, irregularibus, tuber- 

 culaio-nodatis, area Ugamenti plano-excavatd, vivide 

 fusco strigatd. 



The warty Venus. Shell somewhat cordately ovate, 

 rather solid, brownish-white, more or less obscurely 

 stained and linearly waved with rose-brown, con- 

 centrically ribbed and ridged, ribs and ridges close- 

 set, irregular, tubercularly noduled, ligamentary area 

 flatly excavated, streaked with deep brown. 



LiNN^us, Syst. Nat. 12th edit. p. 1130. 

 Venus erycina. Pennant. 

 Pectunculus strigosus. Da Costa. 

 Venus cancellata, Donovan. 

 Venus Lemanil, Payrandeau. 



Hab. South European and North African seas, including 

 Britain and the Channel Islands. 



In this well-known species the concentric ribs and 

 ridges are broken up, more especially on the posterior 

 side, into warty nodules. 



Species 41. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Venus Kenneeleyi. Ven. testd oblongo-ovali, sicbgua-, 

 dratd, sordide opaco-albd, concentrice pUcato-costatd, 

 costis confertis, subrecurvis, subirregularibus, luuuldet 

 area Ugamenti angustis. 



Kennerley's Venus. Shell oblong oval, somewhat 

 square, dull opake white, concentrically plicately 

 ribbed, ribs close-set, a little recurved, rather irre- 

 gular, lunule and ligamentary area narrow. 



Carpenter, MS. in Mus. Cuming. 



Hab. ? 



A very characteristic chalk-white shell, strongly pli- 

 cately concentrically ribbed, the ribs being very crowded 

 and irregular. 



June, 1SG3. 



