246 SOLENID^. 



sandy beaches, as those of Magilligan, and of the couuties 

 DiihHn and Cork"'"' (Thompson). In eight fathoms, Bangor, 

 County Down, dead (Patterson). 



Abroad it has a wide range. Liiven enumerates it 

 among the molhisca of Norway. Southwards it extends 

 into the Mediterranean, and Phihppi records it as occur- 

 ing among the shells collected by Ehrenberg and Von 

 Hemprich in the Red Sea. 



S. siLiQUA, Linnseus. 



Straight, not margined by a stricture in front ; hinge terminal, 

 two teeth in one valve. 



Plate XIV. fig. 3, and (animal) Plate I. f. 1. 



Lister, Hist. Conch, pi. 409, f. 255. 



Solen sil'ujua, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 11 1 3. — Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. p. 83, pi. 



45, f. 20.— Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 236, pi. 17, f. 5.— 



Pulteney, Hutchins Hist. Dorset, p. 28. — Donov. Brit. 



Shells, vol. ii. pi. 4G. — Mont. Test. Brit. p. 46. — Linn. Trans. 



vol. viii. p. 43. — Dorset Catal. p. 28, pi. 2, f. 5, — Turt. 



Conch. Diction, p. 158 ; Dithyra Brit. p. 80, pi. 6, f. 5. — 



Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 459.— Macgill. Moll. Aberd. p. 282.— 



Brit. Marine Conch, p. 35.— Brown, III. Conch. G. B. p. 1 12, 



pi. 47, f. 33.*- PoLi, Testae. Sicil. vol. i. pi. 10, f. 7, II.— 



Wood, General Conch, p. 118, pi. 26, f. 1, 2.— Dillw. Recent 



Shells, vol. i. p. 59. — Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 



55. — Index Testae, pi. 3, Solen, f. 1. — Desh. Elem. Conch, pi. 



6, f. I, 2, 3. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 4, and vol. ii. 



p. 5. — Hanl. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 11. — Desh. Exp. Scien. 



Alger. Moll. p. 181. 



Solen novacula, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 47. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 44. — Turt. 



Conch. Diction, p. 159; Dithyra Brit. p. 80. — Flem. Brit. 



Anim. p. 459. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 35. — Wood, General 



Conch, p. 1 19. — DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 58. 



„ Li(/ida, Turt. Dithyra Brit. p. 82, pi. C, f. G. — Brown, 111. Conch. G. 



B. p. 112, pi. 47, upper f. 2. 



The valves of this well-known species are of an elongated 

 greatly compressed cylindiical shape, their length avorng- 

 ing six or seven times their breadth ; they are fragile, al- 



