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VENUS equalise 
TAB. XXL 
Spec* Char* Uniformly convex,, obcordate or 
nearly circular,, covered with numerous trans- 
verse concentric stria?; thicks particularly in 
the middle; margin acute, extended, entire. 
Cicatrix obscure. 
Length and breadth nearly equal; a shell of three or four 
inches in diameter, is about half an inch thick; the anterior 
side rather rugged; stria? projecting, sharp. I received 
specimens of these some years since, by favour of the Rev. 
P. Lathbury, from Wood bridge in Suffolk; gathered in 
the cragg-pits. Dawson Turner and William Hooker, 
Esqs. have also favoured me with fragments. The two 
upper figures are from one specimen from Elmset, by 
favour of the first Gentleman ; it is the most perfect I have 
seen. The fragment below is part of a larger shell, and 
shows the opposite hinge, and at the same time a wearing 
at the cavity w r here the cartilage probably was fixed, by 
which it is remarkably enlarged near the beak of the shell; 
besides some wearing about the rest ,of the hinge part, 
almost enough to make some think it another species. I 
have received a fragment of this and another species of 
similar proportions, much resembling Venus Islandica of 
Linn, from Holywell near Ipswich, found in a cragg pit on 
Mr. Cobbold’s estate. These shells are mostly the Carbo- 
nate of Lime remaining from the recent shell, more or less 
coloured by ochraceous oxide of Iron ; they are generally 
thick, particularly in the middle, and are of a thickly plated 
