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that it is remarkably dlftinguiflied by the fizeof the teeth, 

 which are very large for fo fmall a fhell. 



This fpecies has been more recently found on the coafl 

 of Dorfet; as we are allured by Mr. Bryer, who has 

 himfelf taken it on the fliore at Weymouth ; and who fa- 

 voured us with a fpecimen, which is white, and the two 

 rays very faint. 



5. 

 Irus. Donax Irus. Lin. Syft. p- 1128. 



Gmel Syji. p. 3265. 11. 

 Pult.Cat. Dorfet. ^.2,2.— Gualt. t.95.A. 

 Don. Br. S/iellr. i. t. 29. 2. 2. 

 Turt. Li;i. iv. p.216. 

 C/iem. Conch, vi. t. 26. f. 268. 270. 

 Tellina CornubieiGs. Br. Zool. No.35.— Bor. CoA«.t.38.f.23. 

 Cuneus foliatus. Da Cojia. p. 204. t. 15, f. 6. left hand. 



D. with a fub-ova\ opaque, rugofe, whitilh fhell, with 

 high concentric membranaceous ridges refleft ing upwards, 

 broken or undulated; interfiices between finely flriated 

 longitudinally : uvi!?oUna\], placed near to one end ; apex 

 much turned: teeth Tmall, bifid, one excepted. Infide 

 white, or flelh-colou, generally with dark purple about 

 the hinge, and towarc the longer fide ; fometimes wholly 

 of that colour: mar|in plain. 



No (hell perhaps aries more in fiiape than this, fome- 

 times it is nearly asong as it is broad : others in breadth 



doubly 



