198 DONAX. TVEDGE-SHELL. Class VI. 



GENUS X. DONAX. WEDGE-SHELL. 



Animal, a Tethys. 



Shell with the frontal margin veiy blunt. 

 Hinge with two teeth on the middle, and 

 sometimes one marginal, somewhat remote. 



l.TRUNCU- Lin. Si/si. 1127- No. 105. Conch, tab. 376. s. 217. 



LDS. Gm. Lin. 3263. Lin. Tr. vi. t. 16. /. 13— iC. 



■^ ° Faun. Suec. No. 2142. List. ih. viii. 74. 



Jngl. tab. y. fig. 35. Mont. Test. Br. 103. 



D. with a glossy shell, of a Avhitish color tinged 

 with dirty yellow, and marked lengthways with 

 many elegant minute strice ; the inside purple. 

 Breadth an inch and a tenth. Tab.Wm.Jig. 1. 



2. COMPLA- Lin. Tr. vlii. 75. Mont. Test. Br. 106. t. 5.f. 4. 



NATA. 



* D. with an oblong shell, very smooth or 

 glossy ; edges perfectly entire ; length five- 

 eighths of an inch, breadth an inch and a 

 quarter. 



Inhabits the coasts of Devon, Dorset, and 

 CorjizvalL 



