PLATE LVI. 



Anomia Rubicunda : subrotunda, basl subtruncata, longitudi- 

 naliter sulcata, obsolete triloba : sinu lato, nate 

 perforata abbreviata deorsura aperta. Soland, 

 MSS. in Mus. BanJcs. 



The Solandrian Anomia rubicunda appears to be the shell de- 

 nominated by Chemnitz Anomia Capensis. Its native place was un- 

 known to Dr. Solander, who merely speaks of it in general terms, 

 habitat in oceano/' while the appellation given to it by Chemnitz 

 leads to the conclusion of its being an inhabitant of the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; it will be however evident that the name given to it by 

 Dr. Solander has the precedence of that assigned by Chemnitz, and 

 that we are for this reason justified in retaining its original appellation. 



We have previously intimated that the species was described by 

 Dr. Solander from examples in the Portland Museum. There were 

 a few entire specimens and some fragments of the species in the par- 

 cel, and which differed a little in size as well as colour : the most 

 perfect and expressive of these were selected for the purpose of our 

 present illustration, and appear in the annexed plate ; some few por- 

 tions of the fragments, or broken shells, very clearly shew that the 

 species does sometimes attain to a larger size than the specimens 

 selected for our representation. In respect to colour they are of a 

 red or ruddy hue, as the trivial epithet imphes, and in some instances 

 are of a deep sanguineous tint, in others more inclining to orange ; 

 one among them of the larger size and also same fragments of the 



smaller size are pale, inclining to whitish. 



