XV111 CONCH OLOGICAL AUTHORS. 



Da Costa has evidently been collated through subsequent 

 writers. His figures of Lepas anatifera, and Turbo Lacuna 

 are omitted. Turbo labkitus, and T. nigricans are both re- 

 ferred to the same description, omitting his figure. His Ve- 

 nus verrueosa, and V. Casimi, are confounded together. 

 And it may possibly be an error of transcription, that the 

 figure of Mactra truncata is referred to for Mactra solida, of 

 MyaPictorum for Pholas crispata, and of Lepas anatifera 

 for Solen Siliqua. 



la looking casually over their references to Lister, whose 

 noble volume we have been in the habit of examining for 

 nearly thirty years, we were something puzzled to know 

 what was meant at p. 86, of the Descriptive Catalogue, bv 

 a reference to Lister's Conchology, p. 11 13 ; till turning td 

 the Systema Naturae, we found that the subject under de- 

 scription was at p. 1113, and 1114 of Linne, one of which 

 pages they had given in its place, and had transferred the 

 other to Lister's Conchology. The figure they refer to for 

 Lepas Scalpellum is L. pollicipes : the figure quoted for 

 Mya Pictorum is M. Batava ; and the same plate is refer- 

 red to for Area pilosa, and A. Glycymeris. Such is also 

 their most strange misconception and perversion of Lister's 

 numbers, that the plate referred to for Pholas Candida is 

 Venus Dysera ; the plate referred to for Pholas crispata is 

 Venus Paphia ; and to complete this climax of ridiculous 

 blunders, the plate referred to for Donax complanata is 

 Chama Gigas. 



Montagu. Testacea Bntannica, or a Natural History of 

 British Shells, and Supplement, by George Montagu, 

 F.L.S. in 3 vols. quarto, with thirty plates, 1803. 



To this laborious and lyncean naturalist, who that of late 

 has studied this elegant department of the Fauna of these 

 islands, is not indebted for the greater part of his know- 

 ledge ! The pages of the present work, as well as the pages 

 of all who have written on the subject since his publica- 

 tions, bear large testimony of his diligence and accuracy. 

 In the thirty plates and vignettes are figured about 230 spe- 

 cies of the more rare and minute shells, all drawn and en- 

 graved under his immediate inspection, from original sub- 

 jects in his own possession, and generally of his own coU 

 lection.. His cabinet of the natural history of the British 



islands 



