PLATE LVI. 



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SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shell somewhat heart-shaped, smooth, sprinkled with red : 

 upper valve bilobate : lower with a longitudinal hollow : beak 

 perforated. 



Terebratula Cruenta: subcordata, laevi, rubro irrorata, valva 

 superiore bilobata inferiori convalle longitudinali, 

 nate perforata. 



Anomia Cruenta : ovato-obcordata, laevi rubro irrorata, antice 

 sinuato -retusa,nate perforata abbreviata, foramen 

 ambiente. Solander MSS. in Mu$, Banks, 



This elegant little testaceous body is eminently entitled to the 

 consideration of the naturalist, being no other than the true Anomia 

 Cruenta of Dr. Solander'^s manuscripts, preserved in the Banksian 

 library, and of the Portland Museum to which the Solandrian manu- 

 scripts refer ; it is consequently the shell which has been so uniformly 

 mistaken for and confounded with the Anomia sanguinea of the same 

 author,* and not unfrequently with his Anomia ruhicunda also. 



* By some accident or oversight the same confusion of those species 

 occurs in the descriptive catalogue of shells which lately appeared from the 

 pen of Mr. Dillwyn ; this is the more to be regretted because its ingenious 



