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Tab. No. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
268. 104. 
ruffe, for the similitude it hatli unto a ruffe. The pearls increase in bigness as 
they be nearer the end or joint of the Oyster. Sir Ric. Hawkins apud Purchas. 
I.7. c. 5. part4. I saw a very small pair of shells from Jamaica, which were 
long, oyster-like ; but the colour of the inside was of a blueish Mother of Pearl 
colour, and the hollow or bason of a rhomboid figure: the skirts encompassed 
with a ridge of the shell, reaching much beyond it, as in the first figure of the 
Mother of Pearl kind (No. 224. 58.) is represented. One of the shells was much 
shallower than the other; the neck was drawn out to a sharp point, after the 
manner of Pinnas or Muscles; and the connexion of the shell seemed to be by 
a certain number of ties, which makes me put it in this division. 
I have seen one of these shells, thrice as big as this, but they are rare. This shell 
is very strong and ponderous; tliere are two remarkable broad lists from the top 
to the border, of a dark hair colour; the transverse creases are unequal, and not 
thick set. N. B. I have seen some of these (or be it a different species, which 
I incline to) which were of a brownish chesnut colour, very little fasciated, but 
rather smooth: and whereas the neck and head, or point, of this shell is very 
deeply fasciated, these were very smooth; but in ali things else these were very 
like. 
271. 107. This is a very shallow and exceeding thick and ponderous shell, smooth on the 
outside, or, if you will, fasciated or irregularly worked. On the inside, towards 
the left hand, it is of a violet purple: the edges are very full of small and shal¬ 
low hatchings, but not indented, the extreme edge being smooth. This is the 
only shell of the kind that I have seen: it was in Mr. C.’s colleetion that I saw 
it, and caused it to be figured. N. B. I have seen two other species very near 
resembling this shell in ali things. The first differs in that it is very finely stri- 
ated on the outside betwixt the regular wrinkles only, those strias being of a 
very peculiar make; and this seems to be a rock-stone in the figure of a shell, 
being extremely white, or chalky, and friable. The second is not near so thick 
and ponderous as the other two described, and is white both withinside and 
without; but is fasciated with fine thin rising edges at certain distances, there 
being properly no furrows at all answering the edges: and was brought from 
the bay of Campeche in the West Indies. 
289. 125. This shell is well figured, it is flat and shallow for the bigness, of a yellowish pale 
colour. The lists are small and very regular, and not much extant but flat, so it 
is, as it were, smooth. Here also is a small lunar sinus near the nib. Ab insula 
Jamaica. 
293. 129. This shell is white inside, outside: probably brown when the animal is in it, and 
that it is fresh. The lists are so very small and many, that the design hath 
scarce figured the one half of them. It hath a remarkable lunar sinus on the 
one side of the nib: it is a thick and strong shell. This is found on the English 
coast. 
294. 130. This shell is very thick and shallow, the edges smooth, the circular wrinkles are 
very numerous, small, and not very rising; it is stained with a brown hair co¬ 
lour, and in some places with that colour indented or waved. The figure of the 
head or point is very odd and flattish. It is a rare cockle; I never saw but two 
pair of them. 
297. 134. This shell was taken up on the coast of Norway. The lists are fine, and small, 
and pretty regular, but sharp and rough: it is moderately strong for the bigness, 
and not very shallow: it is white inside, outside. The lunar sinus near the nib 
is not to be observed in this shell. 
Ab India occidentali. 
This shell is thin comparatively to those like it in this and the other tribes of 
Pectunculi. It is prettily veined with a purplish colour, in others brown ; it is 
fasciated, but neither regularly, nor very high and conspicuous; the ridges of 
the shell are smooth, and not indented, which does sufficiently distinguish it 
from the other in this tribe. Ind. occident. 
304. X45. Ab India occidentali. This is a very thick and strong shell, and shallow: it is ir¬ 
regularly fasciated: there are of them also some less, of a different species, that 
are in some parts irregularly striated also: it is marbled with a yellowish brown 
300. 137. 
303. 144. 
