154 DON AX. 



Inhabits the East Indies. Lister. Tranquebar. Chemnitz. 



Shell about an inch long, and an inch and a half broad, trun- 

 cated, and transversely wrinkled at the anterior end ; and 

 the posterior end much compressed ; the colour is white, or 

 pale greyish, with reddish or dark violet longitudinal rays, 

 and the inside is white, variegated with purple ; the margin 

 is very entire. 



laevigata. 14. Shell somewhat triangular, glabrous, 

 truncated and inflected at the anterior end, 

 and the margin very entire. 



Donax laevigata. Chemnitz, vi. p. 253. t. 25. f. 249- Gme- 



lin, p. 3265. 

 Donax, No. 1. Schroeter Einl.'iu. p. 101. 

 Tellina purpurascens. Gmelin, p. 3237. Wood's Conch, p. 

 172.? 



Inhabits the coasts of Tranquebar. Chemnitz. 



Shell an inch and a half long, and two inches and a quarter 

 broad, glabrous, of a yellowish green colour on the outside, 

 and violet within. The hinge has a bifid tooth in one valve, 

 and two in the other, without any lateral teeth. 



scripta. 15. Shell ovate, compressed, smooth, 

 with purple transverse undulated lines, and 

 the margin crenulated. 



Donax scripta. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1 127- Chemnitz, 

 vi. p. 267. t. 26. f. 261 to 265. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 

 98. Gmelin, p. 3264. 

 Venus cytherea. So/ander's MSS. 



Lister Conch, t. 379- f. 222. and t. 380. f.223. Rumphius, 

 t. 42. f. L and M. Petiver Gaz. t. 16. f. 9. and Amb. 

 t. 2. f. 7. and t. 18. f.5. Klein Ost. t. 11. f. 59- Adan- 

 son Senegal, t. 17. f. 13. Enc. Meth. t. 261. f . 2 to 4. 

 Inhabits the East Indies. Lister. Coasts about Fort St. 

 George. Petiver. Cape Barnard on the coast of Senegal. 

 Adanson. Mediterranean. Linn&us. Coast of Barbary. 

 Gronovius. Malabar. Chemnitz. 

 Shell commonly about eight lines long, and one inch broad, 

 but this species varies considerably in size, as well as in its 

 colour and markings, and some shells are more oblong than 

 others ; the colour is white, more or less tinged with pale 

 violet, and marked with transverse purple, reddish, orange, 

 or fawn coloured, parallel undulated stripes, which in dif- 

 ferent shells vary considerably in breadth, regularity, and 

 the angle of their undulations ; the binge resembles that of 



