141 ' . 



towards the umbo: immediately under the apex is a ca- 

 yity, and a {pace deditute of teeth, dividing them into 

 two feries : margin plain. Length three-eighths of an 

 inch ; breadth fcarce half an inch. 



This curious and rare fpecies we received from Mr. 

 Boys o{ Sandwich, for the fliell figured by Walker as 

 above quoted, at which place it is not uncommon. Mr. 

 Walker confideVed this (liell as the A. Modiolus of 

 LiNN^us. Chemnitz has given a tolerably good figure 

 of this fpecies, which GMELi>f quotes as his A. viinuta. 

 Mr. Adams has given an Area minuta in the Linnean 

 TranfaElions, but from his fhort defcription, we cannot 

 be confident it is the fame. He fays, "Tejla fubrotunda : 

 Jlriis concentricis, margine integro. Color albus" 



Area Nucleus Lin. Syji. p. 1143.— Gmel Syji. p. 3314. 33. Nucleus 



C/iem. Conch, vii. t. 58. f. 574. a. b. 



Br. Zool. No. 59. figure erroneous. 



Don. Br. Shells ii.t.63. — Turt. Lin. iv. p. 257. - 



Pidt. Cat. Dorjct. p. 35.—GuaIi. 88. R. 



Lin. Trans, vi. t. 18. f. 3. 6. (/Vood.) 



Petiv. Gaz. t. 17. f. 9. 

 Glycyinerisargeutea. Da Cojia p. 170. t. 15. f. 6. di:xtra. 



A. with a fub-triangular, white fhell, concentrically 

 wrinkled, and crolFed with numerous, minute, obfolete 

 ftrise from hinge to margin ; covered with a gloffy, oliva- 

 ceous 



