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CONCHY LIA—DITHYRA 36. 



"jtliere is very little doubt but that the Venus anrea and 

 Venus geographica of authors, are the same species under 

 different varieties of colors, as we possess them in their inter- 

 mediate states, the remotest of which are fignred in our plate. 



ff latere antico angulato. 

 angular at the anterior end. 



Venus virginea. 



-virginea. Venus test& ovato-rhombed, strils transversis planalis antich 

 latioribus, areola lanceolatii, deniihus duohiis jissis. 

 Shell rhombic-oval, with transverse flat sn-ise wliich are broader 

 at the anterior end, the areola lanceolate, and two of tlie teeth 

 cloven. 



Tab. nost. 8. fig. 8. 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1136. 

 Gmelin, Syst. p. 3294. 

 Turlon, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 241. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 212, tab. 58. fig. 5. 

 Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 128. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 89, tab. 2, fig. 8. 

 Titrton, British Fauna, p 159. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 36, tab. 13, fig. 1 . 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 207. 

 Turton, Conch, Dirt. p. 246 

 Chemnitz, vii. p. 60. tab. 43, fig. 457, 458. 

 Cuneus fasciatus. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 204. ;0!i! 



Tellina fasciata. Lister, Conch, tab. 403, 404, fig, 247, 248, 

 Var. latere antico attemtato-elongato. 



elongated and tapering at the anterior side, 



Venus edulis. 



