COISCH^LIA—DITHYRA. 36. 149 



an(1 the interstices between tiiein are finely striate longitudinally. 

 It is also much thinner, and of an uniform pale brown color. 



Venus tesM tri^ono-cordatd, antich productd, striis transversis Gallina. 



coitfertis incur vis, areola striata. 

 Siiell trian>j,ular heart-shaped, produced at the anterior end, 

 with crowded transverse incurved strive, and the areola striate. 

 Tab. nost. 9. fig. 2. 

 Venus Gallina. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1130. 



Gmelin Syst. p. 3270. 



Tiirtnn, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 220. 



Chemnitz, vi p. 31 1, tab. 30, fig. 308, 309. 



Pennant, iv. p. 205, tab. 59, fig. 2. 



Linn. Trans, vi. tab. 17, fig. 7 and 8. 



Linn Trans, viii. p. 82. 



Turtmi, British Fauna, p. 157. 



Dorset Catal. p. 35, tab. 8, fig. 2. 



Diiltvi/n, Descript. Catal. p. 168. 



7\rton, Conch. Diet. p. 234. 

 Venus striatula. Montagu Test. Brit p. 113. 



Donovan, British Shells, ii. tab. 68, 

 Pectunculus striatulus. Da Costa, p. 191, tab. 12 fig, 2. 

 Pectnnculus fnscus. Lister. Couch, tab. 282, fig. 120. 

 M^^s nost. On most sandy coasts. 



Shell about an inch long, and an inch and a quarter broad, 

 obliquely produced at the cartilage side in a nearly straight line 

 to an angular point; wliite, yellowish ur fawn-c. lor, rarely with- 

 out marks, mostly with white or pale broad longitudinal rays, 



