THE 
CAMELLIAN MUSCLE. 
TIE 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Cc. 
MUSCLE with oblong, thin, greenifh, truncated 
fhell, the beaks fharp and carinated ; the 
fhells completely clofing. 
The Clofe DUCK'S- BILL. 
This fpecies feems to agree in every refpe& with 
the Mytilus Roftrum, except that the valves fhut 
very exactly, without leaving any hiatus at either 
end as in that fhell. It is a native of Japan, and is 
reprefented in fome original drawings of Camelli 
(Kamel) in the Britifh Mufeum: I have alfo ob- 
ferved this fpecies in Chinefe drawings. The figures 
here reprefented, fhewing not only the fhell but 
likewife the inhabiting animal, are from fpecimens 
finely preferved in fpixits in the Britifh Mufeum. 
