BIVALVE SHELLS. 173 



Venus virginea, Dorset Cat. p. 36. pl. 13. f. 1. 



Turf, Conch. Dict. p. 246; Dith. Brit. p. 156. pl. 8. f. 8. 



Forbes, Malac. Monens. p. 53. 



Thorpe, Mar. Conch. p. 92. 



Dillw. Recent Shells, i. 207. 



Lamk. An. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vi. 360. 



Wood,Ind. TesLpl. 8. f. 110. 



Hanley, Recent Shells, p. 123. pl. 8. f. 110. 

 Venus rhomboides, Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4. iv. 97. pl. 55. fig. 



(omissa). 

 Cuneus fasciatus, Da Costa, Brit. Conch. p. 204. 

 Venus Sarniensis (var.), Turt. Dith. Brit. p. 153. pl. 10. f. 6. 



Thorpe, Brit. Mar. Conch. p. 91. 

 Venerupis Sarniensis (var.), Flem. Brit. Aniin. p. 452. 

 Venerupis virginea, Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 452. 



Macgill. MoU. Aherd. p. 269. 

 Pullastra virginea, Brown, III. Conch. G. B. p. 89. f . 8, 9 ; pi. 36. 



f. 6. 

 Venus virago, Loven, Ind. MoU. Scand. p. 40. 

 Tellina elliptica ?, Brown, lU.Conch. G. Br.p.l01.pl.40.f.20, 21. 

 Tapes virginea, Forbes Sf Hanley, Brit. Moll. xxv. f. 4, 6. p. 388. 



Hab. Oeeanus Em-opaeus ; mare Mediten^aneum. 



39. Tapes phaseolina. 



T. testa ovata, tenue transversim striata, grisea aut pallide fulva, 

 radiata ; ano ovato ; natibus subviolaceis. 



jDe^^. Lamk. An. s. Vert. ed. 2. vi. 364. no. 64. 



Deless. Rec. de Coq. pl. 10. f. 4. a, b, c. 



Hanley, Descr. Cat. p. 124; in Wood, Suppl. pl. 13. f. 37- 



Hab. ? 



Maxime ailinis T. virginese Linnsei, an varietas ? 



40. Tapes aurea. B.M. 



T. testa ovato-subtrigona, ventricosa, inaequilaterali, antice brevi, 

 postice subangulata, transversim tenue et regulariter striata, 

 longitudinaliter tenuissime lineata, albo-flavescente griseo, 

 flavo vel fusco liturata vel diversimodo maculata; intus au- 

 rantia ; lunula ovata, in plerisque livido-fusca. 



Tellina fasciata, Lister, Conch. pl. 404. f. 249. 

 Venus edulis, Chemn. Conch. vii. 60. pl. 43. f. 458. 

 Venus aurea, Gmel. p. 3288. 



Mont. Test. Brit. p. 129 & 576. 



Maton 8f Rack. Linn. Trans. viii. 90. pl. 2. f. 9, 



