Genus IX. Maqtra. 



4S 



Genus VL PLACUNA—Assietes— Plate. 



825. Insequivalvis — L'Inegale — Unequal — ^M^v^^inr^i^ 



826. Vitrea — Le V itmge — Glaffv, or Window— China — Ano- 

 mia Placenta Linn. Placuna Placenta Soland. With the thin 

 fhells of this kind the Chinefe glaze the windows of their fummer 

 Houfes, for which purppfe they are well ada}}ted, particukrly in 

 a~warm climate, as they exclude the rays of the fun, and yet ad- . 

 mit a fufficiency of light. 



827. Ephippinm — Le Selle Polonoife — Saddle — -Tranquebar — 

 Placuna Ephippium Soland— ./^<3»-/^<:'^>- ^^U^^yi-^^-f^z^ c^i^n^. 



Genus VII. CEPA — L'Oignon — Onion Peal. 



82S. Verficolor — ^. White ; ^. yellow, Anomia Eledrica Linn. 

 Cepa Flava Argenv. c Purple, Anemia Cepa Linn. Cepa Rofea 

 Argenv, — Le Diverfifie — Varied — JN orraa'. idy — Anomia Cepa 

 Soland. 



829. Eleftrica — L^Ambre — Amber — New York. 



830. PateUiformis — La Patelie — Limpet Like — Very rare. 

 Anomia Patellifoi'mis ? Linn. 



Genus VIII. LAMPAS— Lampe— Lamp. 



831. Columbina — L'CEuf de Pigeon — Pigeon's Egg — Mediter- 

 ranean — Anomia Terebratula Linn. Lampas Terebratula Mufeum 

 Geverfianum. 



832. Truncata — Le Bee Court — Short Beaked — Mediterranean 

 — Anomia Truncata Linn. 



833. Pe£linifonTiis — La Forme d'un Pcigne — Scallop-like — Me- 

 diterranean — Two of this fpecies, with feveral of Anomia Trun- 

 cata, are here exhibited in their native fituation, adhering by the 

 ligament which comes through a hole in the beak of one of the valves 

 of each of them to a white oyfter, on which two or three fmall fprigs 

 of Gorgonia Pretiofa, or Red Coral, three of Madrepora Cyathus, 



GioWet ^^&*B!g«ss-like Coral, a fponge, fome ferpulce, &c. are alfo af« 

 fixed, forming together a very curious and interefting fpecimen. 



834. Pfittacea — Le Bee de Perroquet — Parrot's Beak — New- 

 foundland — Anomia Pfittacea Soland. Very rare. 



835. Caput Serpentis — La Tete de Serpent — - Serpent's Read 

 — Falkland -iflands — Anomia Caput Serpentis Soland.fe. Scarce. 4 



836. Sanguinea — La Sanguinolente — Blood-red — ^New Zealand 

 —Anomia Sanguinea Soland. Extremely rare. 



Genus IX. BIACTRA—Petrin— Trough. 



837. Eullata — ^La Bouteille d'Eau, ou La Veffie de Carpe — 

 Bubble, or Carp's Bladder — Tranquebar— -Solen Bullatus Linn. 

 & Soland. 838, Cy- 



