53 



here prefixed, and by which it was called by Doftoi 

 SoLANDER in the Portland cabinet. 



9. 

 Solen minutus Lin. Syji. p. 1115.42. Minutus. 



GmcL Syjt. p. 3226. II. Xab. 1. £ 4. 



*• C/iem. Conch. \'\, t. 6. f. 51. 52. 



Lijler Conch, t, 426. f. 267 ? 

 Turt. Lin. iv. p. IS2. 



S. with an opaque whitifh fhell, rugofe or wrinkled 

 tranfverfelv ; fub-oval, truncated at one end clofe to the 

 hinge : valves generally diffiniiiar, each furniflied with 

 two rows of concave fpines running from the umbo ; one 

 along the upper or hinge fide; the other in a diagonal di- 

 reftion the whole length of the fhell. The under valve 

 projefts a little over the other, except at the truncated 

 end clofe to the hinge. Length a quarter of an inch ; 

 breadth half an inch. 



This very rare fpecics, never before noticed as Britifh, 

 we found burrowed in hard lime-ftone at Plymouth, and 

 can therefore with certainty add it to the lift of EngliJJi 

 fiiells. It is a northern fpecies, has been found to inhabit 

 Coral rocks in Norway and Greenland. 



LiNNAUS makes it to be the fizeofa cucumber feed; 

 fome we found were not fo large, but one in particular 

 far exceeded that fize, the figure of which is given, 



Solen 



