22 3 WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 



Gualt.tesf, tab. 75. M. Knurr Vergn. 4. tab* 24. fg. 2. 

 Chcmn. conch. 6. tab. Jfffig* 3 5 3 > 3 5 4- I f < / 3 + 

 Inhabits Mauritius (/land ; reiemblcs V. lasta. 

 Shell marked with brown rays fpots and angular lines : anterior 

 ilope excavated with an oblong gape. 



Ofma» Shell thick convex, with an ovate anterior flope and ovate 

 hcart-fhaped one behind : hinge with only 3 teeth. 



Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 34./^. 355 — ^S7 m 



Inhabits India: fometimes pale with darker rays, fometimes 

 white with blueifh ipots and clouds, fometimes grey with 

 darker fpots and clouds. 



frit -adiata. Shell convex, grey; with 3 blackiih-blue rays: poderior 

 flope elongated, with tumid lips. 

 Inhabits Tranquebar. Chcmn. conch. 6. tub. $4- fig. 358. 



NebulefaJ Shell ochraceous with cinereous and blueifli fpots: anterior 

 flope oval with blueifh lips, 'pofterior ilope ovate 

 blucilh. 

 Chcmn. conch. 6. tab. 34. fig. 3^9- — 361. 



Inhabits Yranqueb&rl generally marked with 4 rajs varied with 

 cinereous and white. 



dontemtat Shell thick triangular equilateral glabrous, with convergent 

 beaks: primary tooth of the hinge crenulatc. 

 Chemi % conch. 6. tab. 34. fig. 362, 363. 



Inhabits Malabar ; minute. Beaks fometimes white, fometimes 

 reddifh ordufky, ibmeiimes marked with a fanguineous M. 



Japonica* Shell oblong-ovate, inequilateral, with crowded tranfverfe 

 ftrix* at the fides: poltciior imprelHon cblong-ovate. 

 Bnnann. Mt'.f. kirch. 2. fig. 134.^ 

 Chcmn. conch. 6 tab. 3<\-fig* 364. 



Inhabits Japan: yellovvifli or milk-white wirh purple triangular 

 characters and angles : probably not of this divifion. 



Striata. Shell ventricofe, angular at the anterior part, with tranfverfe 

 thick fmooth ilightly arched ftrias ; pofterior impreflion 

 heart-ihaped. 

 Bortan. rccr. 2. fig. 377. Muf. Kirch. 2. fig. 113. 

 Chemn. conch. 6. tub. 36. fig, 385. 



2. Chemn. conch. 6. tab. 36. fig. 386. 



Inhabits Indta ; gtey-white with brown rays clouds and ipots: 

 anterior Hope ovate with plaited lips. 



Textile. 



