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the cardinal teeth straight. — Variety. Larger, wider and white. 

 1. — South Seas. 



V. Galactites. Lam. 52. Elongated ovate, rather angulated 

 anteriorly, white, subdecussated, the longitudinal grooves being the 

 more apparent ; no lunnle : hinge with the teeth erect. 2^. — Nem 

 Holland. 



V. ExiLis. Lam. 53. Oblong elliptic, the posterior side very- 

 short and without a lunule ; rather convex, thin, pellucid white, 

 antiquated by very fine transverse and indistinct longitudinal 

 striae, f. 



V. ScALARiNA. Lam. 54.— Del. t. 10. f. 12. Somewhat 

 heart-shaped, depressed, whitish with the beaks violet, with 

 numerous elevated transverse sulci, which are marked with small 

 fulvous articulated spots ; lunule lanceolate, anterior slope glabrous, 

 nymphas gaping. 1^. — South Seas. — Allied to Aphrodina.^ 



V. AuREA.* 3Iont. t. 129.— Gmel. 3288.— i>. p. 207.— Lam. 

 56.—Turt. Bio. t. 9. /. 7, 8.— List. t. 404. /. 249.— W. t. 8. 

 f. 1 1 1. — Ovate, obtusely heart-shaped, tumid in the middle, and the 

 ventral margin much rounded ; yellowish white with usually fine 

 brownish zigzag lines, close concentric striee and obsolete longi- 

 tudinal ones ; lunule defined by a groove and ovate- oblong : 

 golden yellow within. 1 . . 1^. W. EurojJe. 



V. ViRGiNEA.* Lam. 57. — An eadem. Lin. 1134? — D. p. 

 207.— W. t. 8. /. 110.— Ch. f. 457.— Lin. Tr. 8. t. 2. f. 8.— 

 Turt. B. t. 8. f. 8. Ovate, obliquely subangulated at the anterior 

 extremity and when adult with an obsolete angle from the beaks 

 to that margin, mottled with whitish and reddish, the less pre- 

 vailing colour forming zigzags which are sometimes disposed in 

 rays, and marked with concentric groovelike strige which become 

 coarser at the anterior extremity which is the more tumid : ventral 

 margin obtuse : lunule oblong: inside often with a tinge of pink. 

 2\. — Europe. 



V. Marmorata. Lavi. 58. — Del. t. 10. f. 13. Ovate, trans- 

 versely grooved, white mottled with fulvous and rufous, the beaks 

 small white and a little stellated ; the anterior slope large, violet 

 brown and lineolated ; lunule oval-oblong, with its apex violet 

 brown : white within. H. — S. Europe. 



V. Laterisulca. Lam. 60. Somewhat heart-shaped, with 

 transverse grooves, which in the middle become indistinct striae : 

 reddish, spotted with whitish, and with rufous at the anterior 

 slope : posterior depression, oval oblong : white wdthin. 7|. 



V. PiNGUis. Chemnitz, f. 335, 6, 7.—D. p. \S\.—E. t. 266. 

 /. 3.— V. Opima. Gmel. 3279.— Lam. 62.— W. t. 7. f. 50.— 



^ V. ScoTiCA. fjam. 55, is a Crassina. 



