VENUS. 187 



Venus deflorata. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1133. 'Pennant 



Zool. iv. p. 96. t. 57. f. 54. Schroeter Einl.m. p.131. 



Gmelin, p. 3274. Montagu Test. p. 123. t. 3. f. 4. 



Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 85. Brooks's 



Introd. p. 66. t. 3. f. 28. 

 Venus versicolor. Gmelin, p. 3281. 

 Tellina anomala. Born Mus. p. 30. Chemnitz, vi. p. 



93. t. 9- f. 79 to 83. 

 Capsa rugosa. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 125. 

 Lister Conch, t. 425. f. 273. Gualter, X. 86. f. B. and C. 



Knorr, ii. t. 20. f. 5. and v. t. 11. f. 2. Favanne, X. 



49. f. P. -Ewe M<rfA. t. 231. f . 3 and 4. 

 Variety. With the shell deformed and narrower. 

 Tellina purpurata. Gmelin, p. 3289- 

 Tellina, No. 80. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 180. 

 Lister Conch, t. 424. f. 272. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Europe. Linnaus. Mauritius and 



Barbadoes. Listej'. Britain. "Pennant, fyc. 

 Shell generally about an inch and a half long, and two inches 

 broad, and both the longitudinal grooves and transverse 

 wrinkles are strongest on the anterior side ; it is white, or of 

 a pale reddish, yellowish, or violet colour, generally more 

 or less stained with dark purple at the anterior end, and 

 sometimes radiated with purple ; the hinge has only two 

 teeth in each valve, or rather two in one valve, and one bifid 

 tooth in the other, so that its having been placed among the 

 Tellens is not to be wondered at. Born supposed V. decas- 

 sata to be the Linnaean V. deflorata, and Chemnitz has 

 quoted the latter as a variety of the former. I have followed 

 Linnaeus, in placing it among the heart-shaped species, but 

 it would stand better in the next division. Dr. Solander 

 considered Lister's fig. 272, from which V. purpurata of 

 Gmelin has been constituted, to be only an accidentally 

 deformed shell of this species. 



pimbriata. 66. Shell oval, thick, gibbous, trans- 

 versely ribbed, and longitudinally striated ; 

 both the depressions sub-lanceolate, and the 

 posterior one impressed ; margin serrated. 



Venus fimbriata. Linnccus Syst. Nat. p. 1133. Bom 



Mus. p. 69. t. 5. f. 4. Chemnitz, vii. p. 52. t. 43. f. 



448 and 449- and Vign. 8. at p. 3. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 



133. Gmelin, p. 3275. 

 Lister Conch, t. 1056. f, 1. Gualter, X. 75. f. C. Ar- 



genville, t. 21. f. G. 



