CONCHYLIA— Z)/r/fFi2^. 36. ]|5 



Shell oval heart-shaped, tumid in the middle and sloping to each 

 side, with crowded transverse striae and obscure longitudinal 

 ones, the middle tooth cloven. 



Tab. nost. 9, fig. 7 and 8. 

 Venus aurea. Gmelin Syst. p. 3288. 



Turton, Linn. Syst iv. p. 236. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 212. tab. 60, fig. 1. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 129. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 90, tab. 2 fig. 9. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 159. 



Dorset Catal. p. 36, tab. 13, fig. 3. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 207. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 247. 

 Venus geographica. Gmelm, Syst. p. 3293. 



Tuiton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 241, 



Chemnitz, vii. p. 45, tab. 42, fig. 440. 



Dillwyn. Descript. Catal. p. 203. 

 Tellinafasciata. Lister, Conch, tab. 404., ffig. 249. 

 Mus nost. Devonshire and Cornish coasts. 



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

 convex in the middle, and rounded at both the ends, but more 

 produced at the anterior side, thickly striate transversely, and 

 very obscurely in a longitudinal direction; the margin sometimes 

 a little flexuous near the anterior end : color yellowish-white, 

 more or less deeply tinged with golden yellow, and marked with 

 blackish brown of blueish zigzag lines or stripes, variously dis- 

 posed and sometimes confluent or crossing each other: beaks 

 nearer one end, with a broad areola under theui. 



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