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PLATE XI. 
OSTREA SUBRUFUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal a Tethys. Shell bivalve unequal. ‘The hinge without a tooth, 
having a small oval cavity. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Shell thin. ‘Twenty longitudinal rays, finely striated; ears unequal ; 
colours various ; generally red. 
PECTEN TENUIs, subrufus, maculosus, circiter viginti striis majori- 
bus, at levibus, donatus. Lust. H. dn. Angl. 
p. 85. tab. 5. fig. 30. 
Pecten susrurus. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 63. tab. 60. fig. 63. 
PEecTEN PictTus: mediocris, fere zquivalvis, tenuis, variis coloribus 
| perbelle variegatus. Da Costa. Br. Conch. p. 
144. fp. 3. 
Pectunculus pennatus striis dense notatus, luteo purpurascens. Pecten 
altis striis albo purpureis transverse variegatis insignis; 
& Pectunculus purpurascens vittis albis circularibus 
variegatus. Borlase Cornw. p. 277. tab. 28. fig. 
18, 21 and 22. 
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