VENUS.— Platk XIV. 



Me'thodique,' which represents a well-known China species, 

 V. Lamarckii, it was lost sight of, until Sowerby named 

 it in the ' Zoology of Beechey's Voyage ' V. neglecta. 



Species 55. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Venus albina. Ven. testct stibobloiigo-ovatd, alba, couceii- 

 trice dense scairoso-striatd, striis irregularibm, lunidd 

 fused. 



The white Venus. Shell rather oblong-ovate, white, con- 

 centrically densely scabrously striated, stria; irregular, 

 lunule dark -brown. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch, part xiv. p. 732. pi. 101. f. 201. 



Hab. China. 



A peculiarly soft white shell, in which the concentric 

 sculpture is scarcely more than scabrous striie. 



