382 VENERIDiE. 



Hampton (Strickland) ; Hastings (S. H.) ; Weymouth 

 (S. H.) ; and is captured at Exmouth (Clark) ; Torquay 

 (S. H.) ; and other parts of South Devon, as " the in- 

 let between Kingsbridge and Salcombe at the mouth of 

 the Aun" (Mont.); Falmouth (Cocks); Swansea and its 

 vicinity (Jeffreys) ; Cakly Island, near Tenby (Lyons) ; 

 Pwllheli (M'Andrew). It occurs of large size buried in 

 gravel at low-water mark on the shores of Skye and Zet- 

 land (E. F.) ; Bantry and Dublin bays (Jeff. cab.). 



It does not appear to range northward of the British 

 seas, but is very abundant in the Lusitanian and ISIediter- 

 ranean provinces. It ranges southwards to the shores of 

 Senegal, and is said to inhabit the Red Sea. As a fossil it 

 occurs very generally in the newer pliocene beds of Europe, 

 and appears to have originated in the Lusitanian region. 

 Everywhere it is a littoral shell. 



T. PULLASTRA, AVood. 



Suboval, subrhomboidal, finely decussated by concentric striie 

 and radiating striulce ; front dorsal edge very short ; posterior 

 extremity often concentrically sublamellar : umbones obtuse : 

 pallial sinus very large ; teeth very narrow, recurved, nearly equal 

 and much elevated. 



Plate XXV. figs. 2, 3, and, animal, Plate L. fig. 5 and 5 a. 



9 Tellina riujosa, Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, p. 88, pi. 57, f. 34. 



Vemis pullusira, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 125. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 88, pi. 2, 



f. 7.— Dorset Catal. p. 3G, pi. 1, f. 8 (not well).— Turt. 



Conch. Diction, p. 244. — Turt. Dithj-ra Brit. p. 159. — 



Forbes, Malacol. Monens. p. 53. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 



94. — Index Testaceolog. pi. 8, f. 109. — Lam. Anim. s. Vert. 



(ed. Desh.)vol. vi. p. 358. Hanl. Recent Shells, p. 122. 

 Venus })crforuns, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 127, pi. 3, f. 6. — Linn. Trans, vol. \'iii. p. 



89. — Turt. Conch. Diction, p 245. — Dillw. Recent Shells, 



vol. i. p. 206.— Index Testaceolog. pi. 8, f. 108. 

 Venus Sencgalcnsis, Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 206. 



