CONCHOLOGY. 



At the time we were engaged upon the description or Anomia 

 sanguinea, the subject delineated in the 34th plate of the present 

 work, we alluded generally to those erroneous conclusions of con- 

 chologists, and after pointing out, as we trust, so distinctly the charac- 

 teristic peculiarities of theAnomia sanguinea of Solander's manuscripts 

 as not to be again mistaken, we concluded with a promise that the 

 Anomia cruenta of this author should at a future period receive the 

 like attention. We shall now endeavour to fulfil the expectation which 

 that promise may have excited with respect to the Anomia cruenta ; 

 and we are happy to have it at the same time in our power to 

 offer an illustration no less explanatory respecting the third species, 

 Anomia rubicunda. This series will thus entirely set at rest every 

 doubt of naturalists as to the identity of those three species de- 

 scribed in the Solandrian manuscripts. The description or specific 

 character which Dr. Solander has assigned to each respectively appears 

 in his own words among our synonyma, and the shells from which 

 our figures are taken it, may be added further, are the individual 

 specimens of the Portland Museum to which that naturalist refers. 

 Of the Anomia rubicunda we possess a specimen from the Portland 

 collection in our own cabinet : the Anomia cruenta is from a speci- 

 men in the possession of Mr. G. Humphrey, and was the only 

 example of the species in the Portland cabinet : combining these 

 authorities, we cannot fail to establish the identity of those species 

 which for so long a period have remained in doubt with naturalists. 



author was indulged with the rare advantage of consulting those manu- 

 scripts in the Banksian library, and has himself given a far more expres- 

 sive specifical distinction of the species, his Anomia sanguinea, than had 

 before appeared. The whole of his synonyms, as they now stand under the 

 Anomia cruenta, (p. 295) must however be referred to his Anomia san- 

 guinea (p. 293). 



