VENUS. 207 



and the others very long, slender, and curved outwards ; the 

 middle tooth is a little bifid. 



virginea. 111. Shell sub-ovate, slightly angulated 

 at the anterior end, with rather remote trans- 

 verse striae, and the anterior depression tumid ; 

 margin entire. 

 Venus virginea. Linnans Syst. Nat. p. 1136. Schroeter 



EinL iii. p. 151. Gmelin, p. 3294. Montagu Test. p. 



128. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 89- t. 



2. f. 8. Dorset Cat. p. 36. t. 13. f. 1. 

 Venus rhomboides. Pennant Zool. iv. p. 97. t. 55. right 



hand fig. 

 Venus edulis. Chemnitz, vii. p. 60. t. 43. f. 457- Ulysses' 



Travels, p. 487. 

 Venus dura. Gmelin, p. 3292. 

 Venus lutescens. Gmelin, p. 3295. 

 Venus, No. 77- Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 179, and No. 138. 



p. 196. 

 Cuneus fasciatus. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 204. 

 Le Pegon. Adanson Senegal, p. 228. t. 17- f- 12. 

 Lister Conch, t.403. f.247 and 404. f.248. Petiver Gaz. 



t. 94. f. 8. Enc. Method, t. 283. f. 2. 

 Inhabits the Indies. Linnceus. Coasts of Britain, and the 

 Island of Guernsey. Lister, 8jc, Adriatic. Chemnitz. Ta- 

 rentum. Ulysses. 

 Shell about thirteen lines long, and seventeen or eighteen 

 broad, and is much less angulated at the anterior end than 

 V. decussata ; it is whitish, or pale brown, frequently dotted 

 and variegated with ferruginous, or dull purplish spots and 

 streaks, and sometimes with a few interrupted rays, or zic-zac 

 lines. Lister, t. 404. f. 248, from which Gmelin's V. lu- 

 tescens has been constituted, differs ouly in being rather 

 broader in proportion to the length, and has no claim to be 

 placed separate. 



aurea. 112. Shell oval-heart-shaped, shining, with 

 transverse and very minute longitudinal striae ; 

 margin rounded and entire. 



Venus aurea. Gmelin, p. 3288. Montagu Test. p. 129. 



Maton and Racket in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 90. Dorset 



Cat. p. 36. t. 13. f. 3. 

 Venus nebulosa. Solander's MSS. Pulteneys Dorset Cat. 



p. 34. 



