PLATE CXXXVII. 



OSTREA JACOB^A. 



PILGRIM OYSTER, OR SCALLOP, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Teihys. Shell bivalve, with the valves mostly unequal 

 and slightly eared. Hinge without teeth, but furnished witli an ovate 

 hollow, and in general lateral transverse furrows, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shells with fourteen angular and longitudinally striated rays. 



OsTREA jACOBiEA : testse radiis quatuordecim angulatis longitudl- 

 naliter striatis. Linn. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. p, 

 3316. sp. 2. 



Pecten magnus insequlvalvis operculo fubrufo, fornix vero albus 

 costis angulatis et canaliculatis. Jacobeeus. Da 

 Costa Brit. Conch, p. 143. sp. 2. 



P. Jacob,«us Lesser. Penn.Brit, ZooL N'o. 62. tab. 60. fig. 62, 



This large and handsome kind of Scallop is rare on the English 

 coasts : in the Mediterranean it is more frequent, and from that 



