98 BIVALVE SHELLS. 



Venus (ex parte), Montagu (1803), Test. Brit. p. 120. 



Donovan, Maton et Racket, Dillwyn, Wood, Fleming, Phi- 

 lippi, &c. 

 Callista et Callistoderma (spee.), Poli (1791), Test. Sicil. i. 48; 



ii. 84. 

 Clausina (spee.) (1827), Brown. 

 Dosina, Gray (1838), Analyst, viii. 308. 



Venus, genus emendatum reetius circumscriptum, Gray (1847), 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 183. 



Synopsis Specierum. 

 I. Testa verrucosa, 1-5. 

 II. Testa lamellosa, lamellis simplicibus, 6-15. 

 III. Testalamellosa,lamellis crispis, sulcis longitudinalibus, 16-36. 



I. Testa verrucosa. 



1. Venus verrucosa. B.M. 



V. testa inflata, subcordata, ponderosa, albo-rufescente, rufo- 

 maculata et triradiata, transversim rugosa, rugis multifariam 

 lamellosis, ad apicem striis longitudinalibus decussata, antice 

 posticeque divaricatim verrucosa; lunula ovato-cordata, im- 

 pressa, longitudinaliter striata ; marginibus crenulatis, intus 

 alba vel pallide am^antia, postice violaceo maculata. 



Pectunculus crassissimus, Lister, Conch. pl. 284. f. 122 &pl. 285. 



Da Costa, Brit. Conch. pl. 12. f. 1. 

 Petiv. Gazoph.^l. 93. f. 17. 

 Concha marina, Gualt. Ind. Test. pl. 75. f. H. 

 D'Argenv. Conch. pl. 21. f. Q. 

 La Clonisse, Adans. Seneg. p. 216. pl. 16. f. 1. 

 Ginnonni, Op. post. ii. 30. pl. 20. f. 137. 

 EncyclMeth.-p\.27l.i.5-? 

 Favanne, Conch. pl. 47. f- E 9. 



Venus verrucosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. p. 685; ed. 12. 

 p. 1130. 



Born, Test. Mus. p. 60. pl. 4. f. 7. 



Chemn. Conch. vi. 303. pl. 29. f. 299, 300. 



Schrot. Einl. iii. 114. 



Gmel. p. 3269. no. 6. 



Poli (Callista et Callistoderma), Test, Sicil. ii. 90. pl. 21 . 

 f. 18, 19. 



Olivi, Adriat. p. 107. no. 1. 



Donov. Brit. Shells, ii. pl. 44. 



Mont. Test, Brit. p. 112. 



