8. 

 Anti§uatus. Solen antiquatus. Full. Cat. Dorfet. p. 23. 



Solen Cultellus. Br. ZooL t. 46. f. 25. 

 Chama Solen. Da. Cofta. p. 23S. 



Lijler Conch, t. 421. f. 265. 



S. with a tliin, fub-pellucid, white fliell, moderately 

 glofTy, wrought with fine concentric ftria? ; recent ihells 

 are covered with a yeliowidi-brown epidermis : the ends 

 are rounded and gaping : hinge placed near the centre : 

 teeth, a fingle one in one valve, locking in between two 

 in the oppofite; thefe are ere6l, and pro] eel beyond the 

 commijfure or margin, and (land rather oblique. Infide 

 fmooth glofTy white. Length near an inch, breadth two 

 inches: 



Mr. Pennant, who firft gave this fpecies as a Britijli 

 fhell, has erred with refpeft to the number of teeth, giv- 

 ing only a fingle tooth in each valve. Da Costa, and 

 Do6lor PuLTENEY havc fallen into the Hune error. It 

 fliould feem from this circumllance, that the teeth are 

 eafily deftroyed, and indeed we have found it to be the 

 cafe, but by the alTillance of a glafs readily difcover the 

 fraflured part. We have received it perfeft from Looe 

 in Cornwall ; but more frequently with the lofs of one or 

 two teeth. Mr. Pennant fpeaks of its being found at 

 Weymouth. Da Costa received it from Dorfetpiire and 

 Hampjliire. It may however be ranked among our 

 fcarcer fhells. 



As this fpecies is certainly not the Cultellus of Lin- 

 N.EUS, we have followed Do6ior Pulteney inthe name 



here 



