120 



9. 

 SiNUOSA. Venus Cnuofa. Br. Zool. t. 55. f. 51. A. 



V. with thin, convex fhells, with a very deep, obtufe 

 Jinus or bending, on the front. 



Mr. Pennant is the only author who has defcribed, 

 or figured, this fpecies, from whom we have taken the 

 above defcription : the breadth of the figure is three- 

 quarters of an inch ; the length not fo much. We con- 

 fefs this fhell is much in obfcurity, and perhaps is only an 

 accidental difiortion of fome other fpecies. It is flated to 

 have been in the Portland cabinet. DoNOV -^n has given 

 the Tcllina Jlexuofa of this work for the Venus Jinuofa of 

 the Britijh Zoology. 



10- 

 OvATA. Venus ovata. Br. Zoolt. SG f. 56. 



Cardium ftriatum radiatum. IValk. Min. Shells, f. 82. 



V. with a fub-oval, opaque, brown fliell, fomewhat 

 comprefied ; with flrong, collated ftrias longitudinally, 

 and more finely firiated tranfverfely, caufing tuberculated 

 elevations on the ribs : ww;^o nearly central, apex turning 

 a little to one fide, beneath which is a fub cordiform de- 

 preflion elevated in the middle; fides nearly fimilar. In- 

 fide glofl'y white, or fleni-colour; fometimes fine purple 

 in the centre; margin flightly crenated. Length three 

 eighths of an inch; breadth, half an inch. 



We have found this very pretty fiiell at Falmouth, and 

 on the fouth coad of Devon. Mr Boys alfo favoured us 



with 



