86* SHELLS. Class VI. 



were ufed as a food by the antients. Athen<eus * 

 (from Sophron) fpeaks of them as great delicacies, 

 and particularly grateful to widows. 



Motxgxi Koy^cii (rwXsi/fs- Txriya 



Oblongas conchas folenes, et carne jucunda 

 Conchylium, viduarum mulierum cupedise. 



Thefe are often ufed as a food at prefent \ and 

 brought up to table fried in eggs. 



TELLING VI. Its animal a Tethys. 



A bivalve, generally Hoping down on one fide* 

 Three teeth at the hinge. 



* Ovated. 



Fragi lis. Lin. SyJ}. 1117. No. 49. 



26. Fragile* 



T. with a very brittle white fhell, truncated at the 

 narrower, and rounded at the broader end. An inch 

 broad. 



'Tab. xlvii. Jig. 26". 



* Lib. iii. p. 86, 



T. with 



