222 WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 
Chemo. conch, 6. tab. 32. fig. 341. ; ; 
2. Lifter conch. tab. 1057. figs 3. 
3. Chemn. conch. tab. 32. fig. 342. Adan’s feneg. tab. 16. fig. 7. 
Inhabits Europe Africa and the Ca/pian Sea: 3 % inches long and 
nearly 4 broad. ‘The fifh is eaten by the Icelanders. 
Shell covered with a thin glofly cuticle tranfverfely ftriate and 
brown in the older fhells yellow in the younger, under which 
it is white with tranfverfe reddifh bands; within entirely 
white: anterior flope long narrow clofed; margin acute and 
very entire, 
* Chionts Shell fmooth with fine tranfverfe wrinkles: the margin 
entire: hind-tooth of the hinge lanceolate. 
Donovan's Britifh Shells. 1. tab. 17., 
Leigh Lacafping. tab. 3 f- 5. 
Lifter conch. tab. 209. Gualt: teft. tab. 86. f. A. 
Bonan. rear. 2. fig. 64, 65. My. Kirch. Ze f. 035 64. 
Argenv. conch. tab. 21. C. Knorr Vergn, 6. tab. 4. f. 1. 
Reoenf. conch. 1. tab. 8. f. 17. 
Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 32. f. 343. 
2. Rumpf. Muf. tab. 42. G, Pet. Anib. tab. 18. f. 20. 
Chema. conch. 6. t25. 32. f 340. 
3. Chemn. conch, 6, tab. 32. f. 3446 
Inhabits British and Afatic Seas: 2 £ inches long and 3 $ broad: 
Jhell ímooth glofly, brown or byf-colour with a few faint rays, 
within pure white: 3) {nowy with faint angular reddifh lines. 
Maculata. Shell fmooth with a few faint fpots. 
Lifter conch. tab. 270. Gualt, teh. tab. 86.1. 
Argenville conch, tab. 21.H. Regenf. conch. 1. tab. 8. f. 16, 
"dans feneg. 1. tab. 17. f, 15. 
Knorr Vergn. 2. tab. 28. f. 5 and 5$, t4 20. f. 5. 
Chemn. conch. 6, tab. 33. fig- 345. 
Inhabits the American Ocean; refembles the laft, but is only 12 
inch long and 2 X broad: white brown or greenifh-brown, 
with brown or tawny {pots and fometimes 2 interrupted rays: 
hind-tooth of the hinge fhort thick obtufe.- 
Meretrixe Shell glabrous, with a brown gibbous flope before and 
gaping membranes: margin entire. 
Gualt. Tefl. tab. 26. C. Argenv. conch. tab, 21. F, | 
Knorr Vergn, 6. tab. 6, f. 3. ! 
Schret. Tourn. 3. tab, 2. f. 7. 
Chen. conch, 6. tab. 33. f. 347—552. 
2. Ban. Maf. Caf. Vind, tfl. tab, 4. fo 12, 13. * 
Iuhabits the Izdianz Oceaz, near the mouths of riverse 4 
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