246 SOLENID^. 



sandy beaches, as those of Magilligan, and of the counties 

 DubHn and Cork" (Thompson). In eight fathoms, Bangor, 

 County Down, dead (Patterson). 



Abroad it has a wide range. Loven enumerates it 

 among the mollusca of Norway. Southwards it extends 

 into the Mediterranean, and Philippi records it as occur- 

 ing among the shells collected by Ehrenberg and Von 

 Hemprich in the Red Sea. 



S. siLiQUA, Linnaeus. 



Straight, not margined by a stricture in front ; hinge terminal, 

 two teeth in one valve. 



Plate XIV. fig. 3, and (animal) Plate I. f. 1. 



Lister, Hist. Conch, pi. 409, f. 255. 

 Solcn sUkjua, Linn. Sj'st. Nat. p. 1 113. — Penn, Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. p. 83, pi. 

 45, f. 20.— Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 236, pi. 17, f. 5.— 

 Pulteney, Hutchins Hist. Dorset, p. 28. — Donov. Brit. 

 Shells, vol. ii. pi. 46. — Mont. Test. Brit, p. 46. — Linn. Trans, 

 vol. viii. p. 43. — Dorset Catal. p. 28, pi. 2, f. 5. — Turt. 

 Conch. Diction, p. 158 ; Dithyra Brit. p. 80, pi. 6, f. 5. — 



Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 459 Macgill. Moll. Aberd. p. 282. — 



Brit. Marine Conch, p. 35. — Brown, 111. Conch. G. B. p. 112, 

 pi. 47, f. 33.*— PoLi, Testae. Sicil. vol. i. pi. 10, f. 7. 11.— 

 Wood, General Conch, p. 118, pi. 26, f. 1, 2.— Dill w. Recent 

 Shells, vol. i. p. 59. — Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 

 55.— Index Testae, pi. 3, Solen, f. 1.— Desh. Elem. Conch, pi. 

 6, f. 1, 2, 3. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 4, and vol. ii. 

 p. 5. — Hanl. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 11. — Desh. Exp. Scien. 

 Alger. Moll. p. 181. 

 Soleu novacula, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 47. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 44. — Turt. 

 Conch. Diction, p. 159; Dithyra Brit. p. 80. — Flem. Brit. 

 Anim. p. 459. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 35. — Wood, General 

 Conch, p. ] 19. — DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 58. 

 „ Liyula, Turt. Dithj-ra Brit. p. 82, pi. 6, f. C. — Brown, 111. Conch. G. 

 B. p. 112, pi. 47, upper f. 2. 



The valves of this well-known species are of an elongated 

 greatly compressed cylindrical shape, their length averag- 

 ing six or seven times their breadth ; they are fragile, al- 



