CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXVIII. 



FIG. I, I. 



VENUS STUTZERI 

 STUTZER'S PENCILLED JAPAN VENUS 



Bivalve. 



generic character. 



Hinge furnished with three teeth, two near each other, the third 

 divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell somewhat depressed and subrotund, thick, transversely 

 striated, yellowish and marked with angular and somewhat reticulated 

 fulvous Hnes. 



Venus Stutzeri : testa flavescente subdepressa subrotunda 

 crassa trans versim striata : lineis angularibus 

 fulvis subreticulata. 



