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Hoping from ihe beak: cartilage flope large, turned in- 

 wards, nearly fmooth, and glolTy. Infide glody white ; 

 teeth very ft rong; margin fub-crenated; valves moderately 

 concave. Diameter a quarter ot an inch. 



We give this fpecies with fome doubt, with refpeft to 

 its being really Brilijh. It is however but right to men- 

 tion that we once found it in the fand from taimouth 

 harbour. 



13. 

 Granulata. Venus granulata. Gind. Syjl. p. 3277. 33. 



Don. Br. Shelh iii. t. 83. 

 Turt. Lin. iv. p. 226. 

 Venus Marica fpuria. Chem. Conch, vi. t 30. f. 313. 

 Venus Marica. Born. Mas. t. 4. f 5. 6. 



V. with a thick, fub-orbicular ftiell, ftrongly reticu- 

 lated: colour white, variegated with fpots and ftreaks of 

 dark chocolate-brown: umbo much turned to one hde, 

 beneath which is a cordiform depreffion; the cartilage 

 flope mod frequently marked with a few didinft, tranf- 

 verfe, dark lines. Infide gloffv, dark purple; margin cre- 

 nulated; cicatrix {hort, conic. Length feven-eighihs of 

 an inch; breadth one inch. 



Mr. Donovan has given a figure of this fhell, which 

 he fays was found in Cornwall. 



Two inftances only have occurred to us, both dead 



fpecimens : 



