WORMS. TESTACEA. 62. Venus. 
223 
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S/jeU thick convex quite fmoOth, fometimes white fometimes 
brown, with or without rays s within white. 
Tumid, quite fraooth radiate with white , lips of the an- 
terior Hope fiihviolet. 
Gua/t. Test, tab. fig. V. 
Knorf. Vergn. 4. tab. 34 " J‘S‘ ^ >0./. 5 ' 
Schmt- Einl. esneh. 3. tab. ^./ig- 7 ' i • i. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian about l 5 inch wng 
and i i broad.- Jhell gMYy yellowifli with white blueifh or- 
browniih rays: anterior dope oblong, pointed below, imprelied» 
glabrous, varied with white and blue j imprelhon behind the 
beaks llightly heart-lhaped and white. 
Shell triangular rounded, gibbous, quite fmooth and marked 
with angular charafters. 
Lifter conch, tab. 257 ’ * 59 > 262, 287* 
Bonan.recr, i- fig. 376, 378. Muf. Kirch. 
Rumpf. dmb. tab. 42 k. Gualt. Left. tab. 8z. H. ^ 
VaUnt. Abh. tab. lS-/tg. 16. Argenv. conch, taa. 21. IVJ, 
Lelfer teftaceoth. jig. 108, log. . , , 
Knorrftirgn. i. tab. 2^.ftg, 2, 2. t. 10./. 2. 3. t. 4./. 4 
tab. 6. fig. 
Chemn* conch% 6- tab, 35 /ig^ 
Regenf. conch, I. tab. i. fig, 3, 4. t. 4./. 41* 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean and Red Sea: i 5 inch long a , 
2 broad.- white with brown chefnut and pale yellow linci 
forming triangles and marked with tranfverle very fine arched 
ftrise ; margin very entire. 
Shell fmooth, tranfverfely ftriam before and behind: pofte- 
rior Hope obcordate with violet veins. 
Inhabits the Southern Ocean, 
Shell ovate compreffed, tranfverfely llriate, with a gaping 
future behind. 
Lifter conch, tab. 378. Argenno. Z.ootn. tab. iz B- 
Knorr Kergn, 6. tab. 7. jig' 2, 4, 6, 3, 6. 
Ghemn. conch. i> 43-/.?- 45 ° — + 54 " i 
Inhabits the American and Indian Ocean ; l j inch long, ^ i 
/■r// white with blueilli brown or roly angular lines or Ipots, 
or violet, or marked with alternate blue and fiaijjc -colour 
bands j within white with tranfverle llna:: beaM dittant : 
anterior Hope cut: margin denticulate. 
Shell fubovate tranfverfely llriate 
membranes clofed. 
O. Fahr,fn, GrcenL p* 4* 4 ' 3 * 
and fubpellucid ; the 
Inhabit* 
