121 
_ transparent amber or yellow inside and out, not rough 
plaited nor scaly, beaks pointed, not quite terminal ; 
the lower valve flat, scale-like, and with a large in- 
terrupted perforation. 14. W. Ireland. 
A. Epurppium. Lan. 1150.—Pen. 4. p. 232. ¢. 65. 
up. fig—Don. 1, t. 26.—Mont. p. 155.—F. p. 395. 
—Don. 1. ¢. 26.—Mont. p. 155.—Lin. T. 8. p. 102. 
—Dor. Cat. p. 38. #. 11. f. 3.—D. p. 286.—Turt. 
D. p. 2.—Lam. 1.—Iast. 204 f. 38.—Turt. B. p. 
227. t. 18. f. 1. to 3.—Orbicular-oval, rather rough, 
irregularly wrinkled and plaited, when full grown scaly, 
dirty white; beaks termina! ; inside rich pearlaceous, 
white but often stained with greenish or dirty brown ; 
operculum oval, large, thick, rough. 3. Common on 
rocky shores.—Probably most of the remaining Anomie 
are nothing more than varieties, (excepting Aculeata) 
as this genus accommodates its shape, seulpture and 
coloring to the substance to which it may attach itself. 
A. Cepa. Lin. 1151.—D. p. 287.—Turt. B. p. 228. 
¢. 18.f.4.(young)—Ch. f. 694,5.—F. p. 395.—Oblong, 
inclining to oval, rather flat, with a rough but not an 
undulating surface ; under valvé’ not scaly, thin; beaks 
terminal ; inside more or less rosy, not pearly. tE...2. 
Guernsey, Torbay, Sc. 
