Class VI, PECTEN. SCALLOP, 221 



** Both shells convex. 



Pecten tenuis, subrufus, ma- Lin. TV. viii. 98. ib. vi. t. 18. 3. opercu- 



culosus, circiter 20 striis f. 7, 8. 



majoribus, at laevibus, do- Mont. Test. Br. 145. 



natus. List. Angl. p. 185. O. subrufus. Br. Zool. iv. 



tab. v. Jig. 30. 100. 

 Gm. Lin. 3325 . 



P. with twenty narrow rays, finely striated ; 

 ears nearly equal, and also striated; the shell 

 thin and generally of a pale red color. 



A species seldom exceeding two inches and a 

 quarter in length ; the breadth nearly the same. 

 Tab. lxiii.^g". 2. 



LARIS. 



red. 



Lin. Syst. 1146. No. HJQ. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 97. 



4. VAR1US. 



Gm. Lin. 3324. 



Mont. Test. Br. 146. 



variegated. 



List. Conch, tab. \*}%.jig. 15. 







P. with about thirty echinated imbricated rays ; 

 shells almost equally convex ; one ear vastly 

 larger than the other. General length two 

 inches and a half; breadth a little less. Color, 

 a sordid red mixed with white. 



Often found in oyster-beds, and dredged up 

 with them. Tab. Ixiv. Jig. 1 . 



