PLATE XVII. 



VENUS CHIONE. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two near each other, 

 the third divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell smooth with fine transverse wrinkles, a strong cartilage on one 

 slope, and a long pointed oval depression on the other. 



Venus Chione : testa transverse subrugosa laevi, cardinis dente pos-* 

 teriori lanceolate Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. Conch, 

 p. 3272. sp. 16. 



P. Glaber, Smooth Pectunculus major crassus, politus, castaneus,, 

 lucide radiatus. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 184, 

 sp. 22. 



Pectunculus maximus crassus, laevis fere radiatus. Mus. Petiv. p u 

 86. No. 833. — Curvirostrum. Leigh. Lanca- 

 shire, tab. 3. jig. 5. 



Venus Chione, fi Bumf. Mus. t. 42./. G. 



Venus Chinone, y Chemn. Conch. 6. t. 33. f. 334. 





" This species," says Da Costa, " is rare in England. I found 

 it at Mount's Bay in Cornwall, where the fifliermen told me they call 



