WORMS. TESTA CEA; 62. Venus. 
221 
Shell with tranfverfe pbtufe grooves: lips of the anterior 
margin with an elevated angle. 
Ruml-f. Mu/, tab. 43. %. A ? O? Gualt.teji. tab. 83. I. 
Born. Muf. Caf. Find, ted tab. 4,/. 10. 
Cham, conch. 6, tab. 31. As- 333 > 334 " ... . , . 
Inhabits and Indian Qcsan\ an inch long, broad, 
whltiih'with rufou3 dots or rays, or cinereous with brownilh 
ipots and ilria:, fometimes though rarely fnowy with black 
dcprell'ures each lide the beak and blue hinge . tramverfe 
itrire ilightly crenate and bifid towards the front ; frontal 
margin retufe rufous obliquely llriate with elevated gibbous 
lateral angles : margin v?ry fligluly crenulate. 
Shell with tranfverfe parallel rery oljtufe grooves: frontal 
margin glabrous : depreflion behind the beaks ovate. 
Lister conch, tab, j68. fig, 104. 
Knorr Vergn. 4. tab. 3 -A 5 * 
Chemn, conch. 6. tab. ht-.f. 337 — 339 ‘ 
Inhabits India ; refembles V. Chioni ; 2 \ inches long and nearly 
3 broad : jiiell thick flattifh, fiefli-colour with numerous brown 
rays ajid an oravvge band towards the margin; in front a 
long narrow gape : hinge with 4 middle teeth. 
' .V 
S^cll thick ftroiig with flight tranfverfe ftrix and covered 
with a brown cuticle, within pale violet ^ depreilion 
behind the beaks ovate : margin crenulate. 
Lifier tab. zyi.fig. 107. 
Spengl. Schr. Naturfi. 6. tab. (i.fiig. 1-3. 
Chemn, conch. 10. tab. lyi- fig' *^59, 1660, 
Inhabits Europe and North America, and is found foffile in the 
the mountains of Snusden, in North America, thefe fiiells ate 
called Clams, and the Indians make their Wampum or Indian 
money of them. 
Shell zbave 3 inches long and nearly as much broad, ovate, nar- 
rowed on the fore-part ; under the cuticle brown ftravv -colour 
with violet rays beneath and on the fore-part, with elevated 
tranfverie fcmicircular Ilria; and longitudinal grooves : im- 
preffion behind rhe beaks heart-fliaped and longitudinally 
ftriate ; frontal margin glabrous. 
Shell thick flrong with flight tranfverfe ftriae and covered 
with a brown cuticle, within pure white: iropreflion 
behind the beaks o : margin entire. 
Pennant Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 53. fig, 47. 
Lifter tab, 272. Anin, Angl. tab, i^.fig, 22. 
Ha Cofia Brit conch, tab. 14.^^. S' 
Gualt. ted, tab, S^'/g' 
Bora, Muf. CccJ, Find. ied. tab. t[./ig. 1 1 , 
Chant!. 
