isiraminea* 



WORMS. TESTACEA; 62. Venus. 217 



Radial. Shell brown with hyaline fpots; the outfide with crowded 

 arched tranfverfe ftrire, infide with perpendicular ones/ 

 the fore-part wrinkled. 



Qchrcet. Eir.l. conch. ^.tab. %»fig» 3. 



Inhabits Iranquebar: about an inch broad ani rhore than if 

 long: the fore-part not very obtafe and marked with 2 white 

 rays, the hind-part rounded with a white border; within 

 fnowy fpottqd with pale yellow and blueim.* hinge with a 

 Angle obtufe middle tooth in each valve, and a double mar-* 

 ginal one in each : margin or rim very entire. 



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Shell with very thin perpendicular ftrias j/rsfling the tranf- 

 verfe ribs on the fore-part ; ftraw-colour with darker 

 tranfverfe bands; the margin tawny and very entire 

 behind. 

 Schrczt. Einl. Conch. 3. tab. %.fig. 4. a, b. 

 Inhabits above an inch long and \ broad : within Hem- 

 colour, violet towards the rim, with a broad fubconvex border 

 on the anterior part: beaks reddifh : 'hinge with 2 marginal 

 ' tdeth in each valve. 



Candida. Shell entirely white with a few thin arched tranfverfe Arise 

 which are oblique towards the rim : hinge with 3 ob- 

 lique middle teeth: margin very entire. 



Schrcet, Einl. conch i, 3. tab. 8,//g, 5. 



Inhabits Tranquebdr : not quite an inch long and fomething 

 broader ; JJietl thin brittle, a little elevated in the middle on 

 the fore-pat t : the ftrise forming wrinkles towards the rim. 



62 . VENUS'. Animal a TethyS : Jliell bivalve, 

 the frontal margin flattened with in- 

 cumbent lips: hinge with 3 teeth, all of 

 them approximate,; the lateral ones dk 

 vergent at the tip. ^ 



A. Shell fomewh at heart-Jhaped* 



Vione, Shell tranfverfeiy grooved, with a double row of fpines ©». 

 the flattened lide. 

 Sha c w biatur Mi/cell. tab. 163. Barbut, tab. 4* fig- 9< 

 Lifter fab. 307. Bonan. Muf. kircb, 2-fg- 12 1. 

 t Rumpf. Muf, tab. 48* fig. 4. Olear. Muf. 29. fig* 4. 



Pbtiv. Gaz. tab* 2> lt fg» 9. Gualt. ted. t. 76. f. D, 

 LeJJsr test, fig* X 34. Argen<ville cone. tab m 21, fig. I* 



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