WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 223 



Shell thick convex quite fmooth, fometimes white fometimes 

 brown, with or without rays ; within white, 



lata. Tumid, quite fmooth radiate with white, lips of the an- 



terior Hope fubviolet. 



Gualt.Test t tab.SS.fig.V. 



Knorr. Vergn. 4. tab. 24. jig. 2 and 6. /, IO./. 5. 



Schrcet. Einl. cench. 3. tab, K.fig. 7. # 4 



Inhabits the Mediterranean and iW/'tf« <W; about 1 5 inch long 

 and 1 f broad: fiell ghffy yellowifh with white blueifh or 

 brownifh rays: anterior dope oblong, pointed below, impreffed, 

 glabrous, varied with white and blue j imprefiion behind the 

 beaks ilightly heart-fhaped and white. 



Caitrenjls. Shell triangular rounded, gibbous, quite fmooth and marked 



with angular characters. 

 Lifter conch, tab, 257, 258, 259, 262, 287. 

 Bonan.recr. 3. fig. 376, 378. Muf, Kirch, z.f. 311, 312. 

 Rumpf. Atnb. tab. 42 k. Gualt. Teft. tab. 82. H. 

 Vahnt. Abh. tab. l$*fig* 16. Argenv. conch, tab. 21, Ms 

 Lejfer teft aceoth. jig. 108, 109. 

 Knorr Vergn. 1. fa£. zS.ftg, 2, 2, /. 10./. 2, 3. /. 4./, 4 and 0. 



tab. 6. /%. 5, 6. 

 C6«»«. «»f^. 6. /*6. 35 ,./3g. 367 — 381. 

 Regenf. conch. I, ta£. 1. /7g> 3, 4. /. 4./. 4 1 * 

 Inhabits the /«<#*» 0^«» and &?*/ &a : if inch long and nearly 



2 broad; white with brown chefnut and pale yellow lines 



forming triangles, and marked with tranfverfe very fine arched 



dries : margin very entire. 



Vhryne. shell fmooth, tranfverfely ftriate before and behind: pofte- 

 rior flope obcordate with violet veins. 

 Inhabits the Southern Ocean. 





Meroe. Shell ovate compreffed, tranfverfely ftriate, with a gaping 

 future behind. 



Litter conch, tab. 378. Argen-v. Zoom. tab. 12 B* 



Knorr Fergn. 6. tab. 7. fig. 2, 4, 6, 5, 6. 



Chemru conch. C^,7 tab. 4%-ftg. 45c* — 454* 



Inhabits the American and Indian Ocean; I finch long, 2 f broad: 

 pell white with blueifh brown or rofy angular lines or ipots, 

 or violet, or marked with alternate blue and flame-colour 

 bands ; within white with tranfverfe ftrise : beaks diftant : 

 anterior Hope cut: margin denticulate. 



Uinutd, Shell fubovate tranfverfely ftriate and fubpellucid ; Jtfig 

 membranes clofed. 

 O, Fabr.fn. GrcznL p. 41 2. «, 41 3, 



Inhabits 



