CONCHY LI A— D/T/IFi?^. 31. 127 



The fulvous bands are not always present; but this species 

 may be distinguished from the Donax complanata by its color, 

 and the want of the pale band, which in that shell is always more 

 or less distinctly visible. 



a. 



DoNAx testa cuneatd loevi vinaced immaculatd, dente laterali '"{"»• 



in utrdque valvd. 

 Shell wedge-shaped, smooth, of an uniform pale claret color, 

 with a single lateral tooth in both valves. 

 Tah. nost. 10, (ig. 14. 

 Donax rubra. Montagu, Test. Brit Suppl. p. 38. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 200. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 43. 

 Mus.nosl. In fine shelly sand from Tenby, abundantly. 



Sliell hardly the eighth of an inch in diameter, wedge-shaped 

 and gradually sloping to the hinder extremity, quite smooth 

 glossy and semitransparent, of a pale claret color, which as in the 

 Kellia rubra often changes nearly to white, except about the 

 liiiige; inside glossy, paler than the outside, with the margin 

 plain : beaks prominent, very near the truncated end ; the lateral 

 teetJj one in each valve on each side, near the primary ones. 



