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reticulata. 25. Shell sub-rhomboidal, slightly 

 compressed, with decussated stria? • summits 

 approximated, and the margin crenated. 



Area reticulata. Chemnitz, vii. p. 193. t. 54. f. 540. Gme- 

 lin, p. 3311. 

 Area lactea/ Solander's MSS. 

 Area, No. 6. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. CS1. 

 Lister Conch, t. 233. f. 67. 



Inhabits the coasts of the West India Islands. Chemnitz. Ja- 

 maica, Ascension Island, and Madras. Solander. Naples. 

 Ulysses. 



Shell about eight lines long, and fifteen broad ; it is not only 

 rather larger, and much broader in proportion than A. lac- 

 tea, but also differs in being thicker, more compressed and 

 angulated at the anterior end, and has the decussated striae 

 stronger, and the margin crenated. 



laevigata. 26. Shell oblong-ovate, smooth, round- 

 ed at both, and slightly angulated at the an- 

 terior end, and obsoletely striated longitudi- 

 nally ; margin entire. 



Area laevigata. Spengler Cat. Rais. t. 1. f. 10 and 11. 



Chemnitz, vii. p. 194. t. 54. f. 541. 

 Area peilucida. Gmelin, p. 3308. 

 Area Nicobarica. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 108. 

 Area, No. 7- Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 281. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 309- f. 8. 



Inhabits the coasts of the Nicobar Islands. Chemnitz. 



Shell about half an inch long, and eleven lines broad ; transpa- 

 rent, brittle, of a yellowish white colour, and marked only 

 with obsolete distant longitudinal striae, which are hardly dis- 

 coverable without a glass ; it has the habit of a Tellina, and 

 the hinge of an Area. 



pella. 27. Shell sub-triangular-ovate, minutely 

 striated transversely, and somewhat beaked 

 at the anterior end ; margin entire. 



Area Pella. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1141. Schroeter Einl. 



iii. p. 264. Gmelin, p. 3307. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. 



p. 109. 

 Area fragilis. Chemnitz, vii. p. 199. t. 55. f. 54§. 

 Enc. Method, t. 309. f. 9- 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linn<sus, Shores at Cadiz, 



