WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. an 
Flexuofa. Shell with tranfverfe obtufe grooves: lips of the anterior 
' margin with an elevated angle. 
Rumpf. Muf. tab. 43. fg. A? -O? Gualt. teft. tab. 83. I. 
Born. Muf. Caf. Vind. tek tab. 4, f. 10. 
Chemn. conch. 6, tab. 31. fig. 333» 334- 
Inhabits America and Indian Ocean:^'an inch long, 1} broad: 
whitifh with rufous dots or rays, or cinereous with brownifh 
. fpots and ftriz, fometimes though rarely fnowy with black 
depreffures each fide the beak and blue hinge: traniverfe 
ftriz flightly crenate and bifid towards the front; frontal 
margin retufe rufous obliquely ftriate with elevated gibbous 
lateral angles : margin very flightly crenulate. 
&irycinds — Shell with tranfverfe parallel very obtufe grooves: frontal 
margin glabrous: depreflion behind the beaks ovate. 
Lister conch. yah 268. Peeters 
Knorr Vergn. 4. tab. 3. f. S. ^ 
Chemn. conch, 6. tab. 32. f- 337—339. 
Inhabits India ; refembles V. Chioni; 2 4 inches long and nearly 
5 broad : p thick flattifh, fleth- colour with numerous brown 
rays and an orange band towards the margin: in front a 
long narrow gape; hinge with 4 middle teeth, 
? Mercee Shell thick ftrong with flight tranfverfe ftri: and covered 
FOB es) 3 with a brown cuticle, within pale violet ; depredfion 
behind the a aa margin crenulate, 
Lifter tab. 271. fig. 
Spengl. Schr. Naturfy i tab. ©. fig. 1-3. 
Chemn. conch. 19. tab. 171. fig. 1659, 1660, 
Inhabits Exrope and "Novth America, and is found foffile in the 
the mountains of Saveden, in North America, thefe fhells are 
calied Clams, and the Indians make their IVa teal or Indian 
money of them, 
Shell above 3 inches long and nearly as much broad, ovate, nar- 
rowed on the fore- -part ; under the cuticle | brown ftraw-colour 
with violet rays beneath and on the fore-part, with elevated 
tranfverfe femicircular ftrie and. longitudinal grooves : im- 
preffon behind the beaks heart- fhaped and longitudinally 
finer frontal margin glabrous, 
eLiandica Shell hick ftrong with flight tranfverfe: flriz aud covered 
with a brown cuticle,” within pure white: impreffion. 
behind the beaks o: margin entire. | 
Pennant Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 63. fig, 47. 
Lifter tab. 272. Anin. Angl. tab. 4. fig. 22. 
Da Cofia Brit conch: tab. A4. fige 5.» 
Gualt. tel, tab. 58. fig. B. : 
Borne Muf. Caf. Vind. tel. tab. 4. fis: He 
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