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II. A Dckt iptionof feme Shdh found on the Mo- 
lucca Iflands ; a$ aijoan Account of Mr Sam^ 
Brown, his Fourth Book of Eaft India Plants^ 
with their l>iamcs, Versues, &c. James Pe- 
tiver, Apothecarj md Felm oi the Roy ai So- 
citty. 
THe foJlowing ShdU were brought me from the Mq- 
lucca. Iflands^ by my Ingenious Friends Mr Syivmm 
Lmidon and Mr Rowh^on Jacobs. 
I- Tellina Moluccam dense fafciata 8c eleganter lindata. ^ , 
ar^. Tellina magna lutefcens, tenuiter fafciata, undatim de- u9c. n'ft, 
pifta Li(l. Hift. ConchjL Tab. 402. Lib. g. Fig. 246. c^^-^ch ^^^^. 3 
This Shell is near 3 inches long^ and one and | mde^ 24^'. "^^^' 
white about the edges ^??///^/;^, and yellovvifhinthemiddle^ 
' without ii s fafciated with capillarj jlri£^ which are wider 
and deeper near the edges^ crofs thefe are many brown 
reticulated and unduUted Qrenh, which if viewed with 
the Hing downwards, app^at like the Coralline hrmch^s ^ 
"indl pclilbt Mochd-flone., one oi thefe Vdves weighed 
Amongft Mr Stonefireefs Cmiovs Colleciion of Shells, I 
very lately few one oi thefc, which \^ as near hdf cloud- 
ed With brown, as Dr iJfkrs Figure reprefents it« 
2/ Patella alba OrientaUs, profande fiilcato, uaibonee- 
levato, an. Patella i. Aldrov. de Tejh-f^S. Fig, id. Fran- 
Gof. - . 
This dii?ers from the Patel/a Cyprh major ftriata JJdr. 
Teft. 548. Fig. id. Franc, in being white, more tranipa- 
rent, and itS-head higher, ^nd the whole Shell nothing 
near fo thick or heavy. Mr Fox and Mr Cumugham, Sur- 
ri i i i i geons^ 
