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ferved it in the colleftlon of a friend chiefly made oa [htii 

 coaft; placed indifcriminately with the Trunculus. 



In a live, or recent fiate, it is covered with a highly 

 polifhed epidermis of a yeilowifh colour, which gives to 

 the white markings a tinge of the fame. In the fpecimenr. 

 we have col!e61ed, it is fometimes obferved to be banded 

 concentrically with lighter and darker fliades. 



It is in the cabinet of Mr. Swains om under the title of 

 Donax Icevigata; but we were unwilling to retain that 

 name, led; it might be confounded with the D. Icevigata 

 of Gmelin, which is a very different fliell. This gentle- 

 man informed us he received it from Loce in Corn-ooalL 



Donax plebeia. Tult. Cat. Dorfct. p. 32. Plebeia, 



Lifter Conch, t. 339. f. .'28 ? Tag. 5. f. 2, 



D. with a thick, flrong, oblong, ful-oval fhell, of a dull 

 yellowifli horn-colour, fmooth, and ;!offy, except a few 

 diftant concentric furrows ; moft conmonly marked with 

 two brown ftripes longitudinally fran the beak: uviho 

 placed neareft to one fide; teeth ery ftrono-. Infide 

 gloffy, paler than the outfide ; margn fmooth. Lcn<Tth 

 icarce half an inch, breadth three-qurters. 



Do6lor PuLTENEV, (to whom we ire obliged for the 

 firff fpecimen of this fliell) fays, it wasoundat Weymouth, 

 by the late Lutchcfs Doicager of Portend ; and obferves, 



P 2 that 



