Pidla, 
Legumens 
4lata: 
Mytiloides, 
Torta. 
Pes ira. 
WORMS. TESTACEA. 66. Oltrea. 279 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean and Cape of good hope: very rare. 
Shel] about 5 inches long, 5% broad, blackifh ferruginous or 
purplifh and pearly within ; roundifh, lamellate, with a very 
acute. margin, 
Shell equivalve thin pellucid and pointed at the hinge, the 
other end dilated: margin very acute. 
Martin Befch. Maturf. 3. tab. 7. fig. 23» 24. 
Chema. conch, 7. tab. 58. fig. 575. : 
Inhabits the Red Sea; more than an inch broad and above 2 
long; yellowifh-brown with paler undulate rays. 
Shell flat hoary thin pellucid lamellate: hinge with an ob- 
lique line; the interftices of the grooves black. 
Chemn. conche 7. tad. $9. figs 578. 
Inhabits Nicobar I/lands: 4 lines broad and above 2 inches long: 
near the knob is a livid fpot. 
Shell flat brittle pellucid, and dilated towards the margin: 
hinge with an oblique line ending in a fmail beak, 
Inhabits America. Chemn. conch. 7. tab. 59. fig. 581. 
Shell nearly equivalve ovate ventricofe flraight. 
Schreb. berl, Naturf. 2. tab. 9. fig. 9. 
Found in a foffile itate in A//ace. 
Shell equivalve intorted. 
Schreb. berl. Naturf. 2. 5. 276. 
Found foffile in Al/ace. 
Shell equivalve fmooth wedge-fhaped with 6 obtufe plaits, 
Lifter. tab. 171. Gualt test. tab. 74. C. 
Argenv. conch. tab. 27. fig. A. 
Inhabits Shell varied with purplifh and white and marked 
with very fine longitudinal ttriz ; the margin flightly {calloped, 
67. ANOMIA, 
