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This fpecies is not uncommon on many parts of our 

 coafl, but is rarely taken alive, except by dredging in 

 deep water. Is plentiful on the fandy, flat fliores of 

 Caeritiarthenjhire ; rarely in Devonjliire and Cornivall, but 

 on fome parts of the Dorjet coad is thrown up in great 

 numbers, as we are informed by Dotior Pulteney. 

 It is alfo found on fome of the (hores in the north of 

 England and Scotland. 



This is not the Wampum fhell o[ the Americans ; that 

 is the V. merccnaria of Lin n^ us, and has never been 

 found on our coafls. 



5. 

 Venus Chione. Lin. Syft. p. \\3\.—Gmel Syft. p. 3272. 16.'Chjone, 



Pidt. Cat. Dorjd. p. 33.— Fcivan. t.47. B. 



C/iem. Conch, vi. t 32, f.343.— Gw//. t.86.A. 



Lijicr CoTich. t. 269. f. 105. 



Don. Br. Shells i.t.l?.— Turt. Lin. iv.p.222, 



Lin. Trans, vi. t. 17. f. 3. 4. (Wood.) 

 Peflunc. glaber. Da Cojla. p. 1S4. t. 14. f. 7. 



V. with a ilrong, fub-cordated (hell, fomewhat wrin- 

 kled concentricallv, but covered with an extremely 

 fmooth, gloffy. rhrfnut-colouxed epidermis, more or lefs 

 radiated with a darker fhade: umbo placed nearefl to one 

 end; apex turned fideways, beneath which is a ftrong cor- 

 di'brm depreffinn. Tnfde white, gloffy; margin plain ; 

 edgeobufe. Length three inches; breadth three quarters 

 of an inch more. 



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