WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 215 
Radiata. Shell brown with hyaline fpots; the outfide with crowded 
arched tranfverfe ftriz, infide with perpendicular ones; 
the fore-part wrinkled. 
Schret. Eirl. conch. 3. tab. 8. fig. 3. 
Inhabits Yranguebar: about an inch broad and more than r2 
long: the fore-part not very obtufe and marked with 2 white 
rays, the hind-part rounded with a white border; within 
{nowy {potted with pale yellow and blueifh: Ainge with a 
fingle obtufe middle tooth in each valve, and a double mar- 
ginal one in éach: margin or rim very entire, 
Siranineas Shell with very thin perpendicular ftriz grofling the tranf- 
verfe ribs on the fore-part; ftraw-colour with darker 
tranfverfe bands; the margin tawny and very entire 
behind. 
Schrat. Eiul. Conch. 3. tab. 8. fig. 4. a, b. 
Inhabits above an inch long and 3 broad: within flefh- 
colour, violet towards the rim; with a broad fubconvex border 
on the anterior part: beaks réddifh : Ainge with 2 marginal 
teeth in each valve, 
Candida. Shell entirely white with a few thin arched tranfverfe ftrix 
which are oblique towards the rim: hinge with 3 ob- 
lique middle teeth: margin very entire. 
Schrat. Einl conch. 3. tab. 8. sig. 5. j 
inhabits Yranguebar: not quite an inch long and fomething 
broader; heé/ thin brittle, a little elévated in the middle on 
the fore-part: the ftriz forming wrinkles towards the rim. 
62. VENUS. Animal a'Fethys: shell bivalve, 
the frontal margm Hattened with in- 
cumbent lips: hinge with 3 teeth, all of 
them approximate, the lateral ones di- 
vergent at the tip. - 
A. Shell fomewbat heari-/haped. 
Dione. Shell tranlverfely grooved, with a double row of {pines on 
the flattened fide. 
Shaw Natur Mifcell, tab. 163. Barbut. tab. 4. fig. 9. 
Liller tab. 307. Bonan. Muf. kirch, 2. fig. 121. 
Rumpf. Muf. tab. 48. fig. 4. Olear. Muf. 29. hg. 4- 
JPetro. Gaz. tab, 31. fig. 9. Gualt. tef. t. 76. f. D. 
Leffer test! figs 134. Argenville conc. tab, 21, fig. I, 
y VOL. 1V.—Ee Murr. 
