PLATE CXXX. 



VENUS BOREALIS. 



NORTHER^ VENUS. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER; 



Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two near each other, the thircj 

 divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell lentiformj with very remote transverse, 'erect, membranaceous 



striae, 



Venus Borealis : testa lentiformi : striis transversis membranaceis 

 erectis remotissimis. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 T. I. p. 6.p. 328S. sp. 77. 



This is a scarce, or very local shell on the British coasts, and seems 

 to agree with the description of the Linnaean Venus borealis. The 

 species was unknown to Da Costa, and is different from that which 

 Mr. Penant describes under the same name. 



