

WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 233 



*E*oleta. Shell lentiform, tranfverfely ftriate, pale with obfolete 

 rays; pofterior (lope heart-fhaped. 

 Donovans Brit Shells, ii. tab. 42. fig. I. 

 Pennant Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 56 //£. 49. 

 DdCofia Brit. Conch, tab. 12. fig. 5. 

 Z/fttr. /^. 2gz.fig. 128./. 297./. 134, 

 Gua!t,test, tab. 75, F. Adans.fin. \. tab. 16. fig. 4. 

 ^5r» Ma/: C^/, P7a£ /*/?. #&. 5. fig. 9. 

 Chemn, conch. 7. tab. 38,7%. 402— 404. 



2. With a few longitudinal yellowifh lines. 

 . ito>. Zool. iv. tab. 54.. fig* 49. A, Lister, tab. 293. 

 'Chemn. conch. 7. /#£. 38. //£, 406. 



Inhabits Nor-jjay and Britijb Coasts', about 2 inches long and as 

 much broad ; refembles V. profirata, but is more convex and 

 the' lips' are not rough : beaks incurved : within covered with 

 a thick whitifh cfeil : pofterior impfeffiori ferruginous. • 



'< ; -'ata: Shell thin convex orbicular, whitifh. tinged with yellow; 

 with thin tranfverfe itrise: margins waved. 

 Penna?!t Brit. Zool iv. tab. $$fig 51. 

 Inhabits Britijh Seas ; fize of a hazel nut. 



lumidula. Shell gibbous, with tranfverfe remote rather obfolete 

 grooves. 

 Inhabits Mant. 2. p. 546: margin very entire. 



Sinsnfis. Shell longitudinally ftriato, with tranfverfe white and vi- 

 olet arches. 

 Chemn conch. IO« tab. iji:fig, 1663. 

 Inhabits the Chintfe Shores. 



§fauata. Shell lentiform, tranfverfely ftriate, with an oblong gaping- 

 fent on the anterior Hope : hinge with 4 teeth. 

 Lifter conch, tab,, 294. fig> I 30. 

 Chemn. conch. 7. tab. 38.//^. 400, 401. 



2. With a few paler bands. 

 Lifier cotich. tab. 2C)0.fig. 126- 



3. Like var. 2. but fmaller. , . 

 Lifter conch, tab. 289. fig. 125, ^* 4 -*"? <^ ^ U* *j & J . 

 Gualt, test. tab. 75. //£. N. .'•'"£ / 



Chemn. conch. 7. /#£. ^>>fig. %l- 



Inhabits Nicobaf Ifiands ; refemb'les V, exoleta, but is lefs or- 

 bicular, more convex, and the flrise are more elevated, 



* Borealis. Shell lentiform, with very remote tranfverfe membrana- 

 ceous firlae. 



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