140 



tinged with brown : hinge ftrait, furniflied with numer, 

 ous teeth. 



We have found this fingular fpecies at Milton fands, on 

 the fouth coad of Devon, but it is extremely rare. Bor. 

 LASE fird obferved this to be an EngliJJi (hell, having 

 found it at the lands-end in Cornwall, but fpeaks of it as 

 rare. Thofe we found do not much exceed half an inch 

 in breadth, which is about the fize of the figure given 



by BORLASE. 



Foreign fpecimens are much larger. 



4. 



MiNUTA. Area minuta. Gifiel.SyJi. p.3309. 14. — Lin. Trans. 'm.p.6A? 



C/iem. Conch, x. t. 170. f. 1657^1653. 



Turt. Lin, iv. p. 252. 

 Area Modiolus. Walk. Min. Shells, f. 81. 



Adams Micros, t. 14. f. 43. 

 I Area caudata. Don. Br. Shells iii. t. 78. 



A. with an oblong (hell, the anterior fide running into 

 an angulated beak, cut off at the point; finely firiated 

 tranfverfelv, interrupted by three or four ftrong concen- 

 tric ridges : colour white, or yellowifh : M7n(^o very finall, 

 turning a little towards the angulated fide; beneath which 

 is a fmooth depreffion reaching to the end ; this part is in- 

 dented, which gives the produced fide a reflexed appear- 

 ance. Infide fmooth, gloffy; colour the fame as the out- 

 fide ; teeth numerous, angulated, the angular fides placed 



towards 



