VENUS DIONE, 
OR THE | 
OCCIDENTAL VENUS-SHELL. 
DEE EEE EEE EFS | 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal xefembling a Tethys. 
Shell bivalve; Valves fimilar, flattened on one fide 
and furnifhed with a duplicature. 
Hinge confifting of three teeth, approximated, 
the outer ones diverging. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, €&c. 
SUBCORDATED VENUS, with a double row 
of incurvated {pines on the flat fide. 
THE OCCIDENTAL VENUS-SHELL. 
CONQUE DE VENUS occidentale. 
Encyclop. Recueil de planches. tom. 6. 
t. he. 8. 
CONQUE DE VENUS à pointes. 
Fav. D' Herbigny Did. vol. 1. p. 262. 
Tue VENUS SHELL or CONCHA VENE- 
RIS. 
Hills Hifl. of Animals. p. 158. 
The rare and curious fhell reprefented on the 
prefent plate is numbered amongft the moft valuable 
articles 
