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f. 2. Gualter, t. 71. f. E. Seba, iii. t. 86. f. 1. Knorr, 

 vi. t. 8. f. 1. Regenfuss, ii. t. 4. f. 32. Favanne, t. 53. 

 f. G. -Ehc. Method, t. 232. f. 1. 

 Inhabits the Adriatic on the coasts of Dalmatia. Bonanni. 

 Mediterranean. D' Avila. Coasts of Normandy and Bre- 

 " tagny. D'Herbigny. Naples. Ulysses. British Seas, very 

 rare, and the Hebrides. Montagu. Bantry Bay. L. W. D. 

 Shell about three inches long, and two inches and three quarters 

 broad ; of a pale yellowish brown colour, covered with a 

 darker epidermis, and slightly wrinkled transversely; it is re- 

 markable for its large prominent distant urabones, of which 

 the diverging apices are much recurved. 



moltkiana. 2. Shell somewhat heart-shaped, tri- 

 angular, transversely plaited, with the urn- 

 bones distant, and the apices recurved. 



Chama Moltkiana. Chemnitz, vii. p. 105. t. 48. f. 484 to 

 487. Gmelin, p. 3303. 



Chama, No. 1. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 248. 



Cardita Moltkiana. Bruguiere Eric. Meth. p. 404. 



Isocardia Moltkiana. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 118. 

 lEnc'. Meth.t. 233. f. 1. 

 Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. Coasts of China. 



Bruguiere. 

 Shell about eleven lines long, and eight broad, and is a very 



rare and singular species, in form somewhat resembling C. 



Cor; the anterior slope is depressed, smooth, andangulated 



at the edge ; the colour is yellowish white. 



gjgas. 3. Shell with remote broad rounded longi- 

 tudinal ribs, armed with vaulted scales, and 

 the posterior slope heart-shaped, and gaping. 



Chama Gigas. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1137. Bom Mus. 

 p. 8 1 . Chemnitz, vii. p. 11 1 . t. 49- f. 492 to 494. Schroe- 

 ter Einl. iii. p. 230. Gmelin, p 3299- Shaw Nat. 

 Misc. xi. t.442. Brooks's Introd. p. 70. t.3. f.31. 

 Tridacna Gigas. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 117. 

 Variety A. With about five longitudinal ribs, armed with re- 

 mote vaulted scales, and the interstices marked with decus- 

 sated stria?. 



Bonanni Rec. 2. f. 83, and Kirch, f. 82. Lister Conch, t. 

 351. f. 189 a, and t. 352. f. 189 b. Rumphius, t. 42. A. 

 Petiver Amb. t. 5. f. 13. Gualter, t. 92. f. B to F, 

 and t. 93. f. B. Argenville, t. 23. f. E. Knorr, i. 1. 19. 



