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CONCHYUA— KiTiiyiiJ. 8. 



Shell nearly two 'inches long, and three broad, oblong-oval, 

 convex, abruptly cut off at the anterior end, and rounded at the 

 other, writtkled transversely, covered with a tough brown or 

 ochraceous skin, which in perfect specimens extends three or four 

 iaehes beyond the truncated end : inside white. 



It is distinguished by the abrupt end^ and the rounded tooth 

 which is slightly flexuous, but has no lateral projection or denticle. 





MxA testa o^atd, kiitere cmtico rotundato, dente rotundato cum 



denticulo laterali. 

 Shell oval, roundfed at the anterior end, with the tooth rounded 



and furnished with a lateral denticle. 



Mya arenaria. 



Chama arenaria. 

 Chama lata. 



liinn. Syst,Nat. p. 1112. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3218. 



Ttirton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 175. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 10, tab. 1 , flg. 3 and 4. 



Pennant, Br. Zool. iv. p. 161, tab. 45. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 30. 



liinn. Trans, viii. p. 35. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 146. 



Donovan, British Shells, iii. tab. 8. 



Dorset Catal. p. 28, tab. 4, fig. 2. 



tVood, Conch, p. 91, tab. 17, fig. 3. 



DilUfsyn, Descript. Catal. p. 42. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 98. 



Da Costa, Br. Conch, p. 232. 



Lister, Conch, tab. 418, 419, fig. 262, 26*8. 



Mus. nost. Sandy and gravelly shores. 



