PLATE XXIX. 



FIG. I. 

 DONAX TRUNCULUS. 



RIBBAND, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Frontal margin very blunt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell shallow, glossy. Outside fasclated with brown and purple. 

 Inside purple. Margin crenated. 



DoNAx TRUNCULUS : testa antice laevl intus vlolacea, marginibus 



crenatls. Linn. Si/st. Nat. 

 Telllna subfusca angustlor, inter purpurascens. List. H. Conch. 



tab. 376. fg. 217. 

 Cuneus angustlor Izevis subfuscus vittls purpurascentlbus fasclatus 



vittatus. Da Costa, Br. Conch, p. 207. sp. 41. 

 Donax trunculus. Yellow. Pcnn. Br. Zool. No. 43. tab. 55 

 fig' 45. 



This pretty species is about one inch and a half in length. It Is 

 found on the coasts of Essex, Sussex and Cornwall, and also on 

 those of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. 



