PLATE XXXIV. 



Conchology informs us that from 4he time of Fabius Coliimna the 

 word Anomia had become universal, that is as a general denomina- 

 tion for all the shells which Linnaeus subsequently placed together 

 under that name. The term Terebratula was given, says this writer, 

 by Gualtieri ; in plate 96 of his work, Gualtieri figures three recent 

 kinds, and has made a particular genus for them, which he calls 

 Terebratula. And it is further added in another place " the Anomiae 

 are bivalves with unequal valves, and never eared, the beak of the 

 largest or under valve is greatly produced, and rises or curves over 

 the beak of the smaller or upper valve, and is perforated or pierced 

 through like a tube, from which particular they have also obtained 

 the name of Terehratulce , 



These remarks sufficiently establish the circumstance of the term 

 Anomia, being a comprehensive title for all the shells which Linnasus 

 subsequently placed together under that name, and also shews that 

 we are not indebted to either Bruguiere or .Lamarck for discriminating 

 the Terebratulae. We can ever go further back in this particular 

 than Da Costa has done, for that able author is mistaken in supposing 

 Gualtieri to be the first writer who had propossed the genus Tere- 

 bratula. Gualtieri published his work in the year 1724, and we 

 happen to possess among other valuable MSS. of the celebrated 

 Antiquarian, Hearne, the original copy of Lluid's Lithophylacia 

 Britannica, as corrected for the press, dated Montgomery, 1698, in 

 which the genus Terebratula is distinctly named : and this, as it 

 appears from the date, was more than fifty years before the time of 

 Gualtieri ; and we have also the authority of our english Lister in 

 1694 for the like distinction. All these writers, it will be observed, 

 preceded Klein, who has in a particular manner described the genus 

 Terebratula in his Methodus Ostraceologia, published in 1753, but 



