182 BIVALVE SHELLS. 



angusta, obtusa, postice subtnmcata, longitudinaliter tenue 

 striata, striis insequalibus, posticis et anticis latioribus, striis 

 transversis decussatis et grauulosis; lunula vix perspicua, ovato- 

 lanceolata; area minima plana, laevigata, valvis albo-griseis, 

 maculis magnis irregularibus rufis in latere postico marmoratis, 

 intus pallide flavidis ; sinu pallii brevi, obtuso, basi dilatato. 



Tapes japonica, Desh. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853. 



Hab. Mare Japonicum. Coll. Cuming. 



62. Tapes fabagella. B.M. 



T. testa elongato-transversa, insequilaterali, compressiuscula, 

 intus extusque candida, tenui, fragili, antice breviore, obtusa, 

 postice latiore, oblique truncata ; margine superiore recto, in- 

 feriore arcuato ; exilissime striata, striis transversis regularibus, 

 in latere postico multo rarioribus, lamellosis ; umbonibus par- 

 vis, isevigatis ; lunula ovato-lanceolata, vix perspicua ; sinu 

 pallii magno, profundo, basi lato, trigono. 



Tapes fabagella, Desh. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853. 



Hab. Nova Zelandia. 



63. Tapes geographica. 



T. testa ovato-oblonga, transversa, angusta, valde inaequilaterali, 

 tenui, fragili, tumidula, transversim striata, striis tenuioribus 

 longitudiualibus decussata ; striis transversis undulatis, latere 

 postico latioribus, subgranosis, alba vel flava, lineis angularibus 

 fuscescentibus reticulatis depicta ; lunula obsoleta, ovato-lan- 

 ceolata. 



Bonan. Recr. class. 2. f. 46. 



Venus no. 47, Schrot. Einl. iii. l/l. 



Gmel. p. 3293. no. 133. 

 Venus literata, PoU, Test. des deux Siciles, ii. pl. 21. f. 12, 13. 



Ulysses, Travels, p. 486. 

 Venus, Encycl. Meth. pl. 283. f. 2 ? 

 Venus geographica, Chemn. Conch. vii. 45. pl, 42. f. 440. 



Dillw. Cat. i. 203. no. 104. 



Wood, Ind. Test. pl. 8. f. 102. 



Lamk. An. s. Vert. v. 597- no. 44. 



Pavr. Cat. des Moll. de Corse, p. 51. no. 87. 



Desh. Encycl. Meth. Vers, iii. 1120. no. 21 ; Exped. Sc. de 

 Moree, p. 100. no. 50; in Lamk. ed. 2. vi. 355. 



Phil. Enum. Moll. Sicil. i. 45 ; ii. 35. 



Hanley, Descr. Cat. p. 121. 



Petit, Journ. de Conch. 1851, p. 297. 



