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MACTRA. FLAT-SIDED COCKLE. Cl. VI. 



GENUS IX. MACTRA. FLAT-SIDED 

 COCKLE. 



1. DEAL- 

 BATA. 



Animal, a Tethys. 



Shell unequal-sided, equivalve. 



Tooth, middle, complicated ; with a little con- 

 cavity on each side ; the lateral teeth re- 

 mote, mutually received into each other. 



M. pellucida. 6m. Lin. Lin. Tr. viii. 68. t. l.f. 10. 

 3260.? Mont. Test. Br. Q5. t. 5. 



f. I. 



* M. with an ovate gaping shell, the middle 

 hinge tooth complicated, with a lateral small 

 tooth ; length an inch and a quarter, breadth an 

 inch and three quarters. 

 Found at Weymouth. 



2. CLAUCA. 



Gm. Lin. 3200. 

 Lin. Tr. viii. 68. 



Mont. Test. Br. 511. 



* M. with an ovate dull white shell, radiated 

 with grey, most delicately striated transversely; 

 the anterior end wrinkled ; length three inches 

 and an half, breadth four and an half. 



