162 SOLEN. RAZOR-SHELL. 



breadth, the larger end being without them ; these line* 

 are close together at the smaller end, but grow gradually 

 more remote, appearing like laminae not incumbent on each 

 other; also marked with a few transverse antiquated striae, 

 and sometimes two pale rays from the hinge to the oppo- 

 site margin ; inside glossy white, with the margin straight : 

 hinge not quite central, a little prominent at the edge, with 

 a single thin reflected tooth in each valve, and a gibbosity 

 tinder the cartilage ; length nearly three-fourths of an inch ; 

 breadth an inch and three-quarters. 



The specimen from which this description was drawn 

 was found at Scilly, and is in the cabinet of Mrs. W. C. 

 Loscombe, of Exmouth : it has also been found at Hoath 

 in Ireland, by Mr. Tardy, v. m. 



8. Solen Legumen. Pod Razor-^helL 



Lister, pi. 420. f. 264 Pennant, pi. 49. f. 3 Donovan, 

 pi. 53 Wood, pi. 28. f. 4, 5 Dorset Cat. pi. 4. f. 4 



Shell oblong, nearly straight, a little tapering to one end 

 which slopes at the edge like the thumb nail, white covered 

 \vith a greenish or yellowish skin, finely striate concentri- 

 cally : hinge nearly central, with two teeth in each valve, 

 one of them diverging, the diverging tooth of one valve 

 cloven and terminating in a hook-like process pointing to- 

 wards the cartilage ; between the teeth is also a short white 

 longitudinal rib, and another pointing towards the smaller 

 end and running nearly close to and parallel with the back 

 margin : length nearly three-quarters of an inch ; breadth 

 almost four inches. 



Sandy shores of England and Ireland, but not common, 

 v. v. 



9. Solen antiquatus. Antiquated Razor-shell. 

 Pennant, pi. 49. f. 4 Donovan, pi. 114 Wood, pi. 29. 



f. 8. 



Shell oblong, thin, brittle, opake, white covered with a 

 yellowish-brown wrinkled skin, rounded at both ends, 

 somewhat kidney-shaped or contracted in the middle of 

 the front margin, with a faint longitudinal impression from 

 the hinge which widens as it approaches the front margin, 

 causing by its edges two obscure divergent lines, strongly 



strifite 



