VENUS. 169 



t. 282. f. 120. Petiver Gaz. t. 75. f. 12. Klein Ost. 

 t. 10. f. 54. 



Variety. With the transverse striae rather more remote. 

 Venus cruentata. Gmelin, p. 3294. 

 Venus, No. 76. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 179- 

 Lister Conch, t. 396. f. 243. Klein Ost. t. 10. f. 50. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, and the coasts of Asia and Nor- 

 way. Linn am. Portugal. Bonanni. Britain. Lister, fyc. 



Shell about three quarters of an inch, or an inch long, and the 

 breadth exceeds the length by about a fourth ; the colour is 

 ■white, or pale brown, with two or three broad longitudinal 

 darker rays, and generally also marked with crowded fine 

 zic-zac rufous line*, which often cross the transverse striye, 

 so as to give them some appearance of being crenated. V. 

 Lusitanica of Gmelin most probably belongs to this species, 

 or is otherwise undeserving of notice. 



circinata. 24. Shell somewhat heart-shaped, gib- 

 bous, with crowded transverse, elevated, 

 slightly imbricated striae ; margin very entire. 



Venus circinata. Born. Mas. p, 61. t. 4. f. 8. Chemnitz, 



vi. p. 312. t. 30. f. 311 and 312. 

 Venus Guineensis. Gmelin, p. 3270. Montagu Supp. p. 



48. and p. 168. Dorset Cat. p. 35. 

 Venus rubra. Gmelin, p. 3288. 

 Venus rubescens. Solander's MSS. 

 Venus, No. 4 and 5. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 155. and No. 



65. p. 176. 

 Tellina Senegalensis. Gmelin, p. 3244. Wood's Conch, p. 



199- 

 Le Tosar. Adanson Senegal, p. 229. t. 17. f. 14. 

 Lister Conch, t. 306. f. 109- 



Inhabits the coasts of Guinea. Chemnitz. Magdalen Islands, 

 on the coast of Senegal. Adanson. Has been di edged up 

 in the Frith of Forth by Mr. Laskey. Montagu. 



Shell about fourteen lines long, and sixteen broad, reddish 

 white or greyish, with longitudinal rays, and both the slopes 

 tinged with purple, or rose colour ; it may be at once dis- 

 tinguished from V. refiexa, and V. Galium, by the want of 

 a crenulated margin, ui.d its striae are more elevated and im- 

 bricated than in the former of these species. According to 

 Montagu, the hinge is very complicated, and he says, there 

 are three teeth in o.ie valve, of which one stands transverse- 

 ly, and the other has the same number, besides a pro- 

 minency on the side of the cavity that receives the trans- 



