108 TELLINA. 



Venus reclusa. Chemnitz, vi. p. 326. t. 31. f. 327 to 329. 

 Venus, No. 16. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 160. 



Inhabits rivers in Guinea. Chemnitz. 



Shell about an inch and a half long, and an inch and three 

 quarters broad, of an olive colour, and the inside whitish 

 with a tinge of purple ; it has the cartilage external and 

 gibbous, agreeing with Lamarck's Genus Cyclas, on which 

 account 1 have thought it better to remove it to the neigh- 

 bourhood of the foregoing species. 



