330 TELLINID^, 



SPURIOUS. 



Sanguinolaria deflorata, Linnwus. 



Venus deflorata, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1133. — Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. p. 

 96, pi. 57, f. 54.— Mont. Test. Brit. p. 123, pi. 3. f. 4.— 

 Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 123. — Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 240. 



Tellina anomala, Chemn. Conch. Cab. vol. vi. p. 93, pi. 0, f. 79 to 82. 



Sanguinolaria rugosa, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 1 70 (in part). — 

 Brit. Marine Conch, p. 64. 



Psammohia deflorata, Turt. Dithj'ra Brit. p. 93. 



Sanguinolaria diflorata, Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 4G1. 



I'sammobia rugosa, Sowerby, Genera Shells, Psammobia, f. 1. — Reeve, Conch. 

 Sj'stemat. pi. 53, f. 1. 



Capsa deflorata, Conrad, Americ. Jlarine Conch, pi, 17, f. 2. 



Sanguinolaire ridce, Chenu, Traite Element, p. GO, £ 208. 



Encyclop. Method. Vers, pi. 531, f. 3, 4. 



An exotic species, introduced hy Pennant, of which a single 

 individual was obtained hy Montagu in Falmouth Ilarhour. 

 Touching this last locality, so frequently quoted hy our earlier 

 writers for douhtfully indigenous species, we fully agree with Mr. 

 Alder, who, referring to the large quantity of foreign ballast con- 

 tinually thrown into it, observes, " that no dependence can be 

 placed on the indigenousness of any shell, which has solely been 

 found in that harbour." As there are at least two varieties (?) of 

 the Lamarckian Sanguinolaria rugosa, besides the S. dichotoma 

 (Cliemnitz, Conch. Cah. vol. vi. pi. 9,/. 83,^ which has justly been 

 held specifically distinct hy Anton (Verz. Conch, p. 4:), we may 

 remark that our pseudo-British one is the West Indian and South 

 American shell, tvhich differs from the Oriental individuals, among 

 oilier respects, in being less inequilateral, less coarsely and more 

 crowdedly ribbed, and in having the lower or ventral margin much 

 less arcuated. 



