PLx\TE LXVII. 



Chama fusca striis tenuissimis donata. List. Hist. Conch, tab. 423. 

 /-. 271.* 



Chama Purrs anglice dicta, et Tellina fasciata compactilis radiata 



* intus ex parte subaurea, intcrdum subpurpurea. 



List. E.vercit. Anat. 3. /;. 25. 27. tab. 3.— 



Wallace Orkn. p. 42. — Chama nostras striis ca- 



pillaceis. Mus. Petiv. /j. 83. No. 811. 



Puna fesciata et radiata. Cornwall Purr. Pctrc. Gaz. tab. 95. 

 fg. 8. — Chama, Purrs. Dale Ilariv. p. 387. 

 j\o. 5. 



Venus litterata, lettered. Fcnn. Brit. Zool. p. 9G. 53- 



The young Shells of this species vary considerably in their colours 

 and markings, but arc in general remarkable for their elegance ; as 

 they encrease in growth, those colours and markings gradually fade, 

 and in old Shells become altogether obscure. It is found in plenty on 

 most of the soudiern coasts of England and Wales. 



■* Gmelin makes a new species of Lister's shell in the Systema Naturje, under the 

 name obscura, without noticing any other author who describes the same kind " yenui 

 tbscura testa fusca: striis perpendicularibus tenuissimis, p. 3289. sji. 99." 



