160 MYA. GAPER. Class VI. 



2. GLYCI- Gm. Lin. 3222. Mont. Test. Br. Sup. IQ. 



MEKES. l^in. Tr. viii. 34. 



* M. with a shell gaping at each end, very 

 strong, lamellated, oblong-ovate, transversely 

 wrinkled, striated, the primary hinge tooth very 

 strong ; length five inches, breadth ten inches. 



Said to have been found between the Dogger 

 Bank and the eastern coast of England ? 



3. DECLi- Lin. Tr. viii. 30. Mya pubescens. Mont. Test. 



7^^- Br. 40. 



sloping^ 



M. with a brittle half-transparent shell, with a 

 hinge slightly prominent ; less gaping than the 

 tnincata ; near the open end sloping down- 

 wards. 



Frequent about the Hebrides ; the fish eaten 

 by the gentry. 



NUIS. 



4. PR^TE- Lin. Tr. viii. 37- Tellina fragilis. Br. Zool. iv. 



Mont. Test. Br. 41. t. 1. 86. 



/.2. 



M. wdth a thin brittle whitish ovate shell, 

 having a few concentric stria;; hinge tooth 

 broad, and hollowed in the middle, or spoon- 



