136 SOLEN. 



glossy ; the teeth are erect, two in one valve and one in 

 the other. 



This species, which is the Tellina variabilis of some 

 authors, is subject to vary in colour, from purple to 

 orange, and pale yellow; the rays also differ in 

 strength, and number, some shells having the strongest 

 rays near the beak, and others being striated on the 

 inner margin. They vary in size from an inch to two 

 inches, and more, in breadth. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean ; 

 it is also found in England, on the Dorset coast, at 

 Poole and Weymouth. Mr. Montagu met with it at 

 Falmouth in Cornwall, and, of a small size, at Kings- 

 bridge in Devonshire ; live specimens, however, are to 

 be taken only by dredging. 



SANGUINE RAZOR. 

 PL 33. /. 4, 5. Mrs. Mawe. 



28. Solen sanguinolentus. S, testa ovali, glaberrima ; cardine calloso, 



bidentato. Linn. Gmel. p. 3227. 

 Shell oval, very smooth ; hinge callous, with two teeth. 

 List. Conch, t. 397. f. 236. Knorr. Vergn. 4. pi. 3. f. 4. Chem. Conch. 



6. pi. 7. f. 56. Encyclop. Method, pi. 227. f. 1. 



A smooth, oval shell, of a red colour, particularly 

 about the apex ; it is rounded behind, produced, and 

 gaping before ; the inside is red, with a few faint indi- 

 cations of rays ; the hinge has a single tooth on one 

 side, which shuts between two others in the opposite 

 valve. The length, or from hinge to margin, an inch 

 and a quarter ; the breadth two inches. 



Inhabits the coast of Jamaica, and some other of the 

 West-India Islands. 



