160 MYA. GAPER. Class VI. 



2. glyci- Gm. Lin. 3222. Mont. Test. Br. Sup. \g. 



MERES, Li n . 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. 36. Mya pubescens. Mont. Test. 



, VIS - Br. 40. 



sloping. 



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

 hinge slightly prominent ; less gaping than the 

 truncata ; near the open end sloping down- 

 wards. 



Frequent about the Hebrides ; the fish eaten 

 by the gentry. 



4. FR/ETE- Lin. Tr. viii. 37- Tellina fragilis. Br. Zool. iv. 



xuis. 



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



f.2. 



M. with a thin brittle whitish ovate shell, 

 having a few concentric stria; hinge tooth 

 broad, and hollowed in the middle, or spoon- 



