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5. 

 Mytilus Modiolus. Lin. Syfi.^.llb'S,. — Gmel. Syji. p.3354.14. Modiolus. 

 Chan. Conch, viii. t. S5. f. 757. 

 Lijicr Conch, t. 356. f. 195.— t. 359. f.l9S. 

 Br. Zool. t. 66. f. 77. 

 Turt. Lin. iv. p. 293. 

 Da Cojla p. 219. t. 15. f. 5. 

 Piilt. Cat. Dorfet. p. 38. 

 Don. Br. Shells, i. t. 23. 



M. with an oblong, fub-oval, ftrong fliell, covered with 

 a thick, purpHfli -black f/'zV/^rwz.y; fliape like the lafl, but 

 more concentrically wrinkled. 



It is a very convex fliell ; the umbo large and promi- 

 nent : Infide fmooth, pearlaceous. 



This is a large fpecies, fometimes growing to the length 

 of fix inches, and near three inches in breadth; but more 

 ufi.iallv about four inches lono-, and two broad. 



It is 3. pelagic (hell, and rarely taken even by dredging, 

 except in very deep water; but is fometimes caught by 

 the hook in fifhing for whiting, or other fifli, near the 

 ground. 



Da Costa fays it is found at Scarborough, and on the 

 coaft o[ Wales, as well as in the Orknies, and other coads 

 o^ Scotland; and alfo in Kent and Cornwall. 



We have found it rarely in Devonjliire ; and according 

 to Doftor Pulteney's account, has been dredged up at 



Y 2 Weymouth. 



