WORMS. TESTACEA. 64. Chama, 
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2. Chemn. conch,’], tab. /if. 497. 
Inhiibits ihc Indian Ocean', and is fpmetimes fo froall as not to 
meafure ai; inch in length ; foinctimcs far exceeds all other 
teftaceous produdious, having been found of the weight of 
of 532 pounds, and the hih or inhabitant fo large as to fur- 
niih 120 men with food, and llrong enough to cut afunder a 
cable and lop off men's hands : Jketi lucid, white, fomecimea 
rofy varied with yellow, red and wlute : pollerior aperture 
ovate, with a tumid crenate circumference: margin tuuthccl ; 
hinge armed with a tooth befides the callus. 
Shell plaited, mtiricates pofterlor flope retiife, clpfed, 
toothed. 
Barbut, tab.b. f 3. Lifler, conch, tab. 349, 350. 
Bumpf. Mil/, i. 42. C. Arg. conch, t, 23. H. 
Bonan. recr. 2 . 8 1 . 82. Muf, Kirch. 2. f. 80, 8}. 
Peti-v, Amb, aq. tab. 18. y. 15. 
Cuah. tell. tab. 93. A. Leffer tejl. fig, 1 24. 
Regenf. couch. l. tab. to. f^q. 
Kno/r Kergn. | . tab. 22, j' 1,2, and 6, tab, 9. f. 3. 
Born. Muf. Caf. Kind, tefl, p. 79. ‘vign. 
Chemn. conch, 7. tab. fO. f, 498, 499- 
Inhabits the India Ocean: 5 indie' long and 7 broad. 
Shell white varied with red and purple fpots, fometimes yellow- 
ifh i vcntricofc: hinge with yellow callofities, in one valve 2, 
'• Shell fomewhat heart-fliaped, with longitudinal grooves, 
and tranfvcrfc ftrix. 
Adan/’. Sen. I. tab. tb, f. 2. 
Bonan. recr, 2. f. 98, Muf, Kirch. 2. f. 6. 
Valent, abb. tab, \b, f. 30. Gualt.teft. t. 71, I, L. 
Knorr Vergn. 2. tab. xQ. f. 3. and r. 14, _/! 2. 
Chemn conch, 7. tab, fb. Jig, 4S8 -4QI. 
Inhabits American, Atlantic and Indian feas. 
Shell inequilateral, with brown or ferruginous fpots ; ribs 19 — 
22, tranfverfely ftriate : maigin toothed: beaks infleffed 
hack ; anterior margin with a deep clofed fent. 
• Shell trapeziforni, gibbous, with longitudinal crenulatc 
grooves. 
Schrcct. Elnl, in conch, 3. tab. S, fg. 17* 
Inhabits Imall, about the fize of a pea; white 
mixed with brown towards the margin, gibbous with a crenate 
margin ; ftri® about 20, with unequal obtufe knots : beaas a 
little recurved ; pofterior flope ovate, heart-fhapea ; anterior 
Pope oblong, flat and crenate on thcoutfide, 
