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beaks ; inside white, with purple spots on the hinge margin. If. — 

 New Holland. 



V. Aphrodina. Lam. 80. — Del. t. 11. f. 1. Obliquely heart- 

 shaped, more or less conical, with more or less raised transverse 

 striae, glossy; anterior depression glabrous, lunule when distinct 

 elongated heart-shaped ; inside white, with a bluish stain anteriorly. 

 — Far. A. Greyish fulvous. — Far. B. (Conularis. Lam. 78. — 

 Del. t. \\» f. 4.) bluish or purplish violet within and without. — 

 Var. C. (Strigosa. Lam. 79.) uniform pale fulvous, or with rufous 

 simple or grouped lines. 



V. Peronii. Lam. 81. Ovate heart-shaped, whitish, and 

 transversely grooved, the interstices flattened, and the beaks smooth; 

 posterior depression oval and violet ; orange within, with two 

 purplish black spots. lj* — New Holland. 1 



V. Flammea. Lam. 84.— Gmel. 3278.— D. p. 174 1—Schroe. 

 Ein.in Conch. t.8,f, 12. — W. t. 7.f- 37. Somewhat heart-shaped, 

 transversely grooved, whitish, with angular chesnut lines ; beaks 

 smooth ; posterior depression oblong ; within white with a slight 

 tinge of orange under the beaks. frf. — Red Sea. 



V. Undulosa. Lam. 85. Triangular, nearly smooth, having 

 only fine transverse striae, whitish with very delicate crowded waved 

 transverse rufous zigzag lines ; posterior depression oblong and 

 reddish. I-}. — New Holland. 



V. Pumila. Lam. 86. Rounded ovate, thin, greyish white, 

 spotted or rayed with brown, transversely striated, and the anterior 

 slope short and narrow ; posterior depression lanceolate ; yellowish 

 within. — Cettes in the Mediterranean. 



V. Inquinata. Lam, 88. — An. V. Triangularis. Lin. Tr. 8. 

 p. 83 ? Rounded heart-shaped, tumid, yellowish-white and soiled, 

 with the beaks prominent and smooth, and the rest of the shell 

 marked with concentric striae, and extremely fine longitudinal ones. 

 1. — Cherbourg. Is not this a repetition of V. Ovata ? 



V. Gemma. Totten. Sil. J. t. 26. f, 2.— Gould. Mas. p. 88. 

 f. 51. Small, sub-orbicular, longer than broad, sub-equilateral, 

 shining, with minute concentric crowded furrows, violet and white ; 

 teeth divergent, the central one in each valve stout and triangular, 

 the posterior in one valve and the anterior in the other thin and not 

 easily distinguished. \. . -£§. — U. States. 



1 It is stated by Deshayes that V. Aphrodinoides. Lam. 82. 

 — Del. t. 11. /. 2.—W. S, t. 2. /. 10. id but a variety of this 

 species. TJie characters are— shell somewhat heart-shaped, ob- 

 liquely conic, with numerous transverse grooves, whitish spotted 

 internally with violet. \\. — New Holland. 



