182 BIVALVE SHELLS. 



angiista, obtusa, ])ostice subtmncata, longitiulinaliter tenue 

 striata, striis inaequalibus, posticis et anticis latioribus, striis 

 transversis decussatis et granulosis; lunula vix perspicua, ovato- 

 lanceolata ; area minima plana, lajvigata, valvis albo-griseis, 

 maculis magnis irregularibus rnfis in latere jxistico marmoratis, 

 intus pallide flavidis ; sinu pallii brevi, obtuso, basi dilatato. 



Tapes japonica, Desk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853. 



Hab. Mare Japonicum. Coll. Cuming. 



62. Tapes fabagella. 1?.M. 



T. testa elongato-transversa, inaequilaterali, com])ressiuscula, 

 intus extusque Candida, tenui, fragili, antice breviorc, obtusa, 

 postice latiore, oblique truncata ; margine superiore recto, in- 

 t'eriore arcuato ; exilissime striata, striis transversis regularibus, 

 in latere postico multo rarioribus, lamellosis ; umbonibus par- 

 vis, licvigatis ; lunula ovato-lanceolata, vix ])erspicua ; sinu 

 pallii magno, profundo, basi lato, trigono. 



Tapes fabagella. Desk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853. 



Hab. Nova Zelandia. 



63. Tapes geographica. 



T. testa ovato-oblonga, transversa, angusta, valde inaequilaterali, 

 tenui, fragili, tumidula, transversim striata, striis tenuioribus 

 longitudinalibus decussata ; striis transversis undulatis, latere 

 ])ostico latioribus, subgranosis, alba vel liava, lineis angularibus 

 fuscescentibus reticulatis depicta ; lunula obsoleta, ovato-lan- 

 ceolata. 



Bonan. Recr. class. 2. f. 46. 



Venus no. 47, Schrijf. Einl. iii. 171. 



Gmel. p. 32;>;i no. 133. 

 Venus literata, Pali, Test, des deux Sidles, ii. pi. 21. f. 12, 13. 



Ulysses, Travels, p. 486. 

 Venus, E71CI/CI. Meth. pi. 283. f. 2? 

 Venus sreographica, Chemn. Conch, vii. 45. pi. 42. f. 44U. 



Dillw. Cat. i. 203. no. 104. 



Wood, Ind. Test. pi. 8. f. 102. 



Lamk. An. s. Vert. v. 597. no. 44. 



Payr. Cat. des Moll, de Corse, p. 51. no. 87. 



Desh. Encycl. ilMA. Vers, iii. 1120. no. 21 ; Exped. Sc. de 

 Moree, ]). 100. no. 50; in Lamk. ed. 2. vi. 355. 



Phil. Enum. Moll. Sicil. i. 45 ; ii. 35. 



Haiiley, Descr. Cat. p. 121. 



Petit, Journ. de Conch. 1851, p. 29?. 



