124 SOLEN. 



PEASCOD RAZOR. 

 PL 28. /. 4, 5. Mr. Sowerby. 



8. Solen Legumen. S. testa lineari-ovali, recta, cardinibus mediis biden- 



tatis, alterius bifido. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. p. 1114. Linn. Gmel. 



p. 3224. 

 Shell linear-oval, straight ; teeth in both valves double ; in one valve 



bifid. 

 List. Conch, t. 420. f. 264. Gualt. Test. t. 91. f. A. Adans. Seneg. t. 19. 



f. 3. Born Mus. pi. 2. f. 1, 2. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1812. v. 4. pi. 49. 



f. 3. Da Cost. Brit. Conch, p. 238. Chem. Conch. 6. t. 5. f. 32—34. 



Encyclop. Method, pi. 225. f. 3. Pult. in Hutch. Dorset, pi. 4. f. 4. 



Donov. Brit. Shells, pi. 58. Mont. Test. Brit. p. 50. Linn. Trans. 



8. p. 45. 



This is a delicate white shell, very finely striated 

 concentrically, and covered with a yellowish epidermis. 

 It is broader at one end than the other, and the 

 narrow end is rounded, like the human nail, and in- 

 clines a little outwards. The inside is white, and the 

 hinge, which is placed towards the middle of the shell, 

 consists of two teeth in each valve ; on one side they 

 are erect, thin, and pointed, on the other they are thick, 

 broad , and diverging. There is a white ridge, running 

 from the bifurcation of the teeth, towards the middle of 

 the shell, and another, in a contrary direction, from 

 the edge of the hinge, towards the narrow end. It is 

 found of various sizes, measuring from one inch and a 

 half, to four inches, from end to end. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean. 

 In England the species was long considered as very 

 rare, but it has been since found, on some shores, 

 abundantly. Montagu met with it on the coast of 

 Carmarthenshire, nearly an inch from hinge to margin, 



