VENUS. 159 



Verm. p. 36. t. 4. f. 9- Gmelin, p. 3266. Shaw Nat. 

 Misc. v. t. 163. 

 Bonanni Rec. Supp. f. 5 and 6. and Kirch. 2. f. 121. 

 Lister Conch, t. 307. f. 140. Rumphius, t. 48. f, 4. Pe- 

 fr'uer Gff2. t. 31. f. 9. Gualter, t. 76. f. D. Jrgenville, 

 t. 21. f. I. Knorr, i. t. 4. f. 3 and 4. Favanne, t. 47. 

 f. E. 3. £wc. MefA. t. 275. f. 1. 

 Inhabits the American Seas. Linnaus. Coasts of Brazil. Bo- 

 nanni. St. Domingo. D'Herbigny. Jamaica. Humphreys. 

 This rare shell, of which a perfect specimen is very valuable, 

 is about an inch and a quarter long, and an inch and a half 

 broad ; of a pink or flesh colour, variegated with white, and 

 armed round the anterior slope with a double row of incur- 

 vated hollow spines. 



paphia. 2. Shell somewhat heart-shaped, with 

 thick recurved transverse ribs, becoming ab- 

 ruptly smaller towards the anterior end. 



Venus Paphia. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1129. Born Mus. 



p. 59. Chemnitz, vi. p. 287. t. 27. f. 274 to 276. Schroe- 



ter Einl. iii. p. 1 10. Gmelin, p. 3268. 

 Pectunculus Vetula. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 190. t. 13. 



f.5. 

 Bonanni Rec. 2. f. 75. and Kirch, f. 72. Lister Conch. 

 t. 279- f- 116. Rumphius, t. 48. f. 5. Gualter, t. 85. 



f. A. Knorr, ii. t. 28. f. 2. and vi. t. 6. f. 2. Regenfuss, 



i. t. 7. f. 11. Favanne, t. 47. f. E. 5. Enc. Meth. t. 



275. f. 4. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Portugal. Bonanni. America. D'Avi- 

 la. Guinea. Regenfuss. Mediterranean. Da Costa. West 

 Indies, Carolina, and Maryland. Solander. 

 Shell about an inch long, and fourteen lines broad, with re- 

 markably thick, broad, recurved, transverse ribs, which, at 

 about a quarter of an inch from the anterior slope, abruptly 

 become much smaller ; the colour is white, marked with about 

 three longitudinal purplish brown bands, and prettily mottled 

 with small spots and angulated lines ; the margin is crenu- 

 lated, particularly in young shells. Da Costa asserts it has 

 been sometimes fished up on the Western shores of England, 

 but Mr. Donovan says he was aware, after his work had been 

 published, that this assertion originated in a mistake. 



fasciata. 3. Shell somewhat heart-shaped, with 

 thick depressed transverse ribs of an uniform 

 thickness throughout. 



