128 BIVALVE SHELLS. 



Venus fasciata, Thorpe, Brit. Mar. Conch. p. 88. 



Brown, III. Conch. G.B. p. 91. pl. 36. f. 10. 



Burrows, Elem. Conch. pl. 7. f. 2. 



Dillw. Recent Shells, i. 159. 



Desh. in Lamk. An. s. Vert. ed. 2. vi. 371 ; Elem. Conch. 

 pl. 20. f. 4, 5. 



Hanley, Recent Shells, i. 412. 



Phil. Moll. Sicil. ii. 34. 



Wood, Suppl. 2. pl. 7. 



Petit, Journ. de Conch. 1851, p. 300. 



Potiez et Mich. Gal. Douai, p. 232. no. 5. 



Forbes ^ Hanley, Brit. Moll. p. 415. pl. 23. f. 3, pl. 26. f. y, 

 anim. pl. L. f. 7- 



Sow. jun. Thes. Conch. p. 722. pl. 157. f. 114, 115. 

 Venus Brongniarti, Payrand. Moll. Corse, p. 51. pl. 1. f. 23-25. 



Phil. Moll. Sicil. i. 43. 



Fossilis. 



Dosina fasciata, Wood, Cat. of Foss. Shells, Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 

 250. no. 2. 



Morris, Cat. ofBrit. Foss. p. 87. 

 Astarte antiqua et ovalis, Woodward, Geol. of Norf.T^l. 2. f. 15,16. 



Hab. Oceanus Europaeus ; mare Mediterraneum. 



27. Chione decipiens. 



C. testa parva, rotundato-subtrigona, compressa, inaequilaterali, 

 solida, pallide fulva, radiis latis rufo-brunneis variegata, con- 

 centrice costata ; costis glabris, subremotis, depressis, postice 

 sublamellosis, et supra pubem impressam porrectis ; intersti- 

 tiis subconcavis, Isevibus ; margine ventrali subarcuato, intus- 

 que subcrenato; dorsali, utrinque declivi, postice convexo, 

 antice brevi, subrecto; lunula lanceolata; ligamento angus- 

 tissimo, infosso. 



Venus decipiens, Hanley, Ind. Test. Suppl. pl. 16. f. 22, App. ; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1844, p. 162. 



Hab. Australia. 



28. Chione varicosa. 



C. testa transversa, trigona, inaequilaterali, antice obtusa, postice 

 acuminata, lateraliter depressa, fulva rufo punctata, obscure 

 radiata et aliquantisper lineata; costis transversalibus paucis 

 latis obtusis crassissimis cincta ; lunula excavato-depressa, 

 rufa, cordiformi ; area elongato-angusta, angulo obtuso cir- 

 cumscripta, rufo sparsim lineolata; valvis incrassatis, intus 



