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strigilatus. 17. Shell oval, with oblique as well 

 as concentrical striae, except at one end. 



Solen strigilatus. Linn&us Syst. Nat. p. 1115. Born. 



Mus. p. 27. Chemnitz, vi. p. 57. t. 6. f. 41 to 44. 



Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 629. Gmelin, p. 3225. Wood's 



Conch, p. 127. t. 30. f. 1. 

 Solen Sanctze Marthae. Chemnitz, xi. p. 203. t. 198. f. 



1938. 

 Bonanni Rec. 2. f. 77. and Kirch, f. 76. Lister Conch. 



t. 416. f. 260. Gualter, t. 91. f. C. Knorr. vi. t. 5. 



f. 4. Jdanson Senegal, t. 19- f.2. Enc. Method, t. 224. 



f.3. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Sicily. Bonanni. Portugal. Chemnitz. 



South Seas. Humphreys. Naples. Ulysses. 

 Shell about an inch, or sometimes an inch and a half long, 

 and rather more than twice as broad ; strong, ventricose, and 

 rather more rounded at one end than at the other ; it is 

 generally of a pale rose colour, with two obsolete longitu- 

 dinal white rays ; or sometimes wholly white, or tinged with 

 brown : the hinge has two teeth in one valve, and one in the 

 other. Solen Sanctcz Martha of Chemnitz, appears to be 

 a variety differing only in being smaller, and in having the 

 margin tinged with greenish brown. 



coarctatus. 18. Shell oval-oblong, with a slight 

 longitudinal depression in the middle, and 

 rounded at both ends. 



Solen coarctatus. Gmelin, p. 3227. 



Solen cultellus. Pennant, iv. p. 85. t. 46. f. 25. 



Solen anatinus. Schroeter Fluss. p. 185. t. 9- f. 17. 



Solen antiquatus. Solander's MSS. Montagu Test. p. 52. 



Donovan, iv. t. 1 14. Maton and Racket in Lin. Trans. 



viii. p. 46. Dorset. Cat. p. 29. Wood's Conch, p. 125. t. 



29. f- 3. 

 Solen, No. 3. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 625. 

 Chama-Solen. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 238. 

 Jdanson Senegal, t. 19. f- 3. Chemnitz, vi. t. 6. f. 45. 

 Inhabits the shores of the Nicobar Islands. Chemnitz. Bri- 

 tain, rare. Montagu, <3fc. 

 Shell about an inch long, and twice as broad, of a dirty white 

 colour, covered with a yellowish brown epidermis, and 

 strongly striated concentrically ; a slight depression drosses 

 the middle of the shell longitudinally from the hinge to the 



