222 WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus, 



Chemn. conch* 6. tab. 32. Jig. 341. 



2. Lifter conch, tab, lO^j.Jig, 3. 



3, Chemn, conch, tab. 32. /$£. 342. Adansjeneg, tab. 16. Jig. 7, 

 Inhabits Europe Africa and the Cajpian Sea ; 3 | inches long and 



nearly 4 broad. The nfh is eaten by the Icelanders. 

 Shell covered with a thin glofly cuticle tranfverfely flriate and 

 brown in the older (hells yellow in the younger, under which 

 it is white with tranfverfe reddifh bands; within entirely 

 white : anterior Hope long narrow clofed : margin acute and 

 very entire. 



• Cllov.t, Shell fmooth with fine tranfverfe wrinkles; the margin 

 entire: hind-tooth of the hinge lanceolate. 

 Donovan' J Briii/h She/is. i. tab. 17. 

 Leigh Lr.caJping. tab. 3 f, £. 

 Lifter conch, tab. 269. Gualti teft. tab. S5.J. A. 

 Iionan, reir. Z.Jg. 64, 65. Muj. Kirch* 2. J, 63, 64. 

 Argenv. conch, tao. 21. C. Knorr Vergn. 6. tub. 4./". I. 

 Reoenf. conch. 1. tab. 8. f. 17. 

 Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 32. f. 343. 



2. Rumpf. Muj. tab. 42. G. Pet. Ami. tab. 18./. 20. 

 Chemn. conch. 6. tab. ^l.J' 340. 



3. Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 32. y. 344. 



Inhabits Britijh and AJiatic Seas : 2 f inches long and 3 J broad: 

 Jhe/l imooth glofly, brown or buff-colour with a few faint rays, 

 within pure ivhi;e : 3) inoay nuh faint angular reddifh lines* 



Macvlata. Shell fmooth with a few faint fpot^. 



Lijter conch, tab. 270. Gualt. tifi. tab. 86. I. 



Argen-ui He couch, tab. 2,1. H. Regenf. conch. I, tab. S.J. 16. 



Adam Jeneg. 1. tab. 17./', 15. » 



A'wrr Vergn, 2. /a£. 28./". 5 and 5, t,2C,J, 3.**^*/^" H 



Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 33. ySg. 34c. 



Inhabits the American Ocean; refemblcs the laft, but is only if 

 inch long and 2 |- broad : white brown or grecnifh-brown, 

 with brown or tawny fpots and fometimes 2 interrupted rays; 

 hind-tooth of the hinge Inert thick obtufe. 



Meretrix. Shell glabrous, with a brown gibbous Hope before an4 

 gaping membranes: margin entire. 

 Gualt. 7 eft. tab. 76. C. Argenv. conch . tab* 21. F, 

 Knorr Vergn. 6. tab. 6. J. 3. 

 Schrcet- Journ. 3. tab, 2. f. 7. 

 Chemn. conch, 6. ta<£. 33./. 347 — 352. 



%. Bom. Muj, Cue J. Find. /../?. tab. 4. /. 12, I 3. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocear, near the mouths of rivers* 



Shell 



