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beaks ; inside white, with purple spots on the hinge margin. If. — 

 New Holland. 



V. Aphrodina. Lam. 80. — Del. t. 11. y. I. ObUquely heart- 

 shaped, more or less conical, with more or less raised transverse 

 Btrise, glossy; anterior depression glabrous, lunule when distinct 

 elongated heart-shaped ; inside white, with a bluish stain anteriorly. 

 — Var. A. Greyish fulvous. — Var. B. (Conularis. Lavi. 78. — 

 Del. t. 11. y". 4.) bluish or purplish violet within and without. — 

 Var. C. (Strigosa. Lam. 79.) uniform pale fulvous, or with rufous 

 simple or grouped lines. 



V. Peronii. Lam. 81. Ovate heart-shaped, whitish, and 

 transversely grooved, the interstices flattened, and the beaks smooth; 

 posterior depression oval and violet ; orange within, with two 

 purplish black spots. 1|.. — New Holland.^ 



V. Flammea. Lam.SA. — Gmel. 32/8. — D. p. 174? — Schrce. 

 JEin. in Conch, t. 8./. 12. — W. t. ?./■ 37. Somewhat heart-shaped, 

 transversely grooved, whitish, with angular chesnut lines ; beaks 

 smooth ; posterior depression oblong ; within white with a slight 

 tinge of orange under the beaks, li. — Red Sea. 



V. Undulosa. Lam. 85. Triangular, nearly smooth, having 

 only fine transverse striae, whitish with very delicate crowded waved 

 transverse rufous zigzag lines ; posterior depression oblong and 

 reddish. I-4-. — New Holland. 



V. PuMiLA. Lam. 86. Rounded ovate, thin, greyish white, 

 spotted or rayed with brown, transversely striated, and the anterior 

 slope short and narrow ; posterior depression lanceolate ; yellowish 

 within. — Cettes in the Mediterranean. 



V. Inuuinata. Lam. 88. — An.N. Triangularis. Lin. Tr. 8. 

 p. 83 ? Rounded heart-shaped, tumid, yellowish-white and soiled, 

 with the beaks prominent and smooth, and the rest of the shell 

 marked with concentric striae, and extremely fine longitudinal ones. 

 1. — Cherbourg. Is not this a repetition of V. Ovata ? 



V. Gemma. Totten. Sil. J. t. 26. f. 2.— Goidd. Mas. p. 88. 

 f. 51. Small, sub-orbicular, longer than broad, sub-equilateral, 

 shining, with minute concentric crowded furrows, violet and white ; 

 teeth divergent, the central one in each valve stout and triangular, 

 the posterior in one valve and the anterior in the other thin and not 

 easily distinguished. \. . -^q. — U. States. 



1 It is stated by Deshayes that V. Aphrodinoides. Lam. 82. 

 — Del. t. 11. /. 2. — W. S. t. 2. f. 10. is but a variety of this 

 species. The characters are— shell somewhat heart-shaped, ob- 

 liquely conic, with numerous transverse grooves, whitish spotted 

 internally with violet. \\.—New Holland. 



