GINGLYMACONCHA. AZORIDZ. 265 
Solen antiquatus, Pult. Cat. Dorset. 28; Mont. Test. Brit. 
52; M. & R. Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 46; Flem. Edinb. 
Encycl. vii. 88; Lam. Hist. Nat. des Anim. sans Vert. v. 
455 ; Wood, Gen. Conch. i. 125. t. xxiv. f.3; Turt. Conch. 
Dict. 162. 
Inhabits the coasts of Devon and Cornwall. It is found in 
Salcombe Bay, Milton Sands, in the Plymouth Sound, at Pad- 
stow, and at Falmouth ; it occurs likewise at Tenby and Swan- 
sea, and in Bantry Bay, Ireland. Dr. Fleming found it in 
Shetland. 
Genus 14. Gosravus. 
Shell oval, slightly gaping before and behind ; hinge in the 
left valve with one notched tooth ; in the right valve with two, 
the hinder of which is also notched. 
GOBRZUS VARIABILIS. 
Shell rounded anteriorly, obliquely truncated behind; the 
angles rounded ; surface concentrically striated, strice irregular ; 
the colour whitish or yellowish, rayed with rose or violet ; epi- 
dermis opake, of a saffron-brown colour. Length two and a 
half, height one and a half inch. 
Tellina depressa, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 87. t. xlvii. f. 27 ; Dill. 
Desc. Cat. 91. 
Tellina variabilis, Pult. Cat. Dorset. 29. t. v. f. 1; Donov. 
Brit. Shells, t. txi. f. 2. 
Solen vespertinus, Brug. Encycl. Méthod. t. cexxviii. f. 2; 
Chem. Conch. vi. t. vii. f. 5980. a, 6.; Mont. Test. Brit. 
04; Flem. Edinb. Encycel. vii. 89; M. §& R. Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vin. 47 ; Wood, Gen. Conch. i. 135. t. xxxiii. f. 2-3 ; 
Turt. Conch. Dict. 163. 
This species is rather rare. It occurs on Milton Sands, in 
Salcombe Bay and in the Sound of Plymouth; at Falmouth 
and Padstow in Cornwall, and off Tenby in Wales. 
In the collection of Mr. Loscombe, I observed a white va- 
riety of a young shell, which was dredged up by a trawler, in 
Torbay. 
