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with angular dark grey colourings on a light ground, also frequently 
radiately dark banded. The variations in colour and shape no doubt 
account for its having received three names and being figured 
in Reeve’s Conchologia as Tapes marmorata and T. orientalis. The 
name of C. radiata is that applied to the adult specimens in the 
British Museum. : 
Size 12” & 12". 
Tapes textriz (Chem).—-One of our commonest shells, elongated, oval, 
very smooth and shining (old shells sometimes irregularly, concentri- 
cally striated), and with very pronounced blackish zigzag or net- 
shaped markings on a yellowish ground. Sinus rather small, not 
pointed. 
Size 18" x 4". 
Meroe solandri (Gray) and M. effossa (Hanley).—These are two oval, 
flattish, thick, very shining shells remarkable for a deep linear cut 
or depression in the shell behind the umboes and in which the 
ligament lies. Beaded on the inner edge of ventral border. 
M. solandri is quite smooth and of a uniform cream to buff. Young 
specimens are often prettily flame marked with yellow to brownish 
colourings. 
Sinus broad, not very deep. 
Size 13" x 14". 
M. effossa is concentrically lined or grooved, most clearly so towards 
the linear cut spoken of. Nearly covered with flame or sharp 
pointed wavy bands of yellow or light brown, often tinged with 
purple. 
Sinus as last. 
Size 12” x 14". 
Pullastra malabarica (Chem.).—This shell differs from the others 
in being strongly concentrically ridged or furrowed ; umboes a good 
deal curled ; ventral border rounded, and large specimens look about 
as broad as they are long. 
Colour yellowish with fine grey frecklings and frequently four 
dark radiate bands of colour. 
Sinus pel and broad, extending to middle of shell. 
Size 24" x 22", 
