54 LUCINIDiE. 



British example we have seen was dredged by Mr. Jeffreys, 

 in twenty fathoms, at St. Mawe's Creek, five miles from 

 Falmouth ; the same locality from whence the original 

 specimen was procured. Both shells greatly surpass the 

 ordinary dimensions of the Mediterranean ones. 



Poli's figure (Test. Sicil. vol. 1, pi. 15, f. 25) and de- 

 scription of this shell are by no means characteristic, and 

 appear to have been modified from a fancied identity of 

 his species with the larger West Indian Lucina, usually 

 known by the name we have applied to the present shell. 

 The valves of Strigilla divaricata, stated by Turton (Di- 

 thyra Brit. p. 120) to have been picked up on Teigumouth 

 Beach, belong to the Transatlantic mollusk, 



(Tellina divaricata, Chemn. (not Linn.), Conch. Cab. vol. vi. p. 134, (not var.) 

 pi. 13, f. 129.— TuRT. Conch. Diction, p. 178.— Woon, 

 General Conch, p. 195, pi. 46, f. 6. — Dillw. Recent Shells, 

 vol. i. p. 102. — Index Testaceolog. pi. 4, f. 87. 



Lucina divaricata, hxM. Amm. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 226. — Blainv. 

 Man. Malacolog. pi. 72, f. 3. — Gould, Invert. Massach. 

 p. 70.— Dekay, New York Moll. p. 214, pi. 26, f. 273.) 



and are correctly described as only " rather convex," with 

 their striae " not very close," " the margin plain," Sec. 



L. FLExuosA, Montagu. 



Thin, semipellucid, smooth; a radiating sulcus from the beaks 

 to the hinder extremity. 



Plate XXXV. fig. 4. 



Venus sinuosa, DoNov. (not Pennant,) Brit. Shells, vol. ii. pi. 42, f. 2. 



Tellina flcxuosa, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 72. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 56. — Turt. 



Conch. Diction, p. 177. — Wood, General Conch, p. 188, pi. 



47, f. 7, 8. — DiLL\y. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 100. — Index 



Testaceolog. pi. 4, f. 78. 

 Amphidesma Jlexuosa, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 128. 

 Lticina sitiuata, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 230. — Hanl. Recent 

 Shells, vol. i. p. 77. 



