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figure is badly executed, and this is by no means a well defined 

 species. 



lima. 53. Shell oblong, with about twenty-two 

 broad muricated ribs, and fiattish on one 

 side ; hinge oblique. 



Ostrea Lima. Linnceus Syst. Nat. p. 1 147- Born Mus. 



p. 109. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 321. Gmelin, p. 3332. 



Barbut Verm. p. 55. t. 8. f. 5. Brooks's lntrod. p. 77. 



t. 4. f. 43. 

 Pecten radula. Chemnitz, vii. p. 349- t. 68. f. 651. 

 Lima squamosa. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 136. 

 Bonanni Rec. 2. f. 7 I, and Kirch, f. 69. Rumphius, t. 44. 



f. D. Petiver Amb. t. 8. f. 4. Gualter, t. 88. f. F. 



Argenvi/le, t. 24. f. E. Klein Ost. t. 9. f. 34. Knorr, 



vi. t. 34. f. 3. Enc. Meth. t. 206. f. 4. 

 Inhabits the Archipelago. Bonanni. Coasts of Ceylon. Gro- 

 novius. Mediterranean. Solander. Tranquebar, and the 

 Red Sea. Chemnitz. Bay of Naples. Ulysses. 

 Shell sometimes two inches and three quarters long, and two 

 inches broad, but is generally considerably smaller; it is flat- 

 tish on one side, and slightly gibbous, and somewhat trun- 

 cated on the other ; the colour is dirty white, and the longi- 

 tudinal ribs, especially in young shells, are armed with ele- 

 vated vaulted scales. 



scabra. 54. Shell ovate, compressed, with about 

 fifty narrow sealy ribs, and the scales vault- 

 ed and imbricated ; hinge slightly oblique ; 

 margin crenated. 



Ostrea scabra. Bom Mus. p. 1 10. 

 Ostrea glacialis. Gmelin, p. 3332. 

 Ostrea sagrinata. Solander s MSS. Callone's Cat. p. 52. 



No. 991- 

 Ostrea, No. 24. Schroeter Einl iii. p. 332. 

 Lima aspera. Chemnitz, vii. p. 332. t. 68. f. 652. 

 Lister Conch, t. 176. f. 13. Klein Ost. t. 9. f 32. Knorr, 



vi. t. 38. f. 5. Favanne, t. 54. f. N 1. Enc. Method. 



t. 206. f. 2. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Barbadoes. Lister. St. Domingo. D'A- 



vila. West Indies. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about two inches and a quarter long, and an inch and a 

 half broad ; and has one of its auricles turned up and thicken- 

 ed at its margin ; the colour is dirty white. 



