NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Pecten minimus angustior inaequalis fere, et asper. Tit. 31 . de Cochl. Marin. Anim. 
Ang. 
This shell is rare, and few of them are to be met with in the cabinets of the cu- 
rious. It is very flat and hollow, and yet the one side is much flatter than the 
other, especially at the head, which I have caused also to be drawn from a very 
perfect pair; (see 175 . 12.) This scallop is more long than broad, having thir- 
teen or fourteen ridges very round and rising; the ears are on both sides large, 
but not altogether alike, being a thought larger on the right-hand: we speak of 
the uppermost or bigger shell, which is now figured in this piate. Most that I 
saw were white, but the nethermost shell of one pair was spotted with a dark 
hair colour. 
I have seen of these shells twice bigger than this which is here figured. They are 
long and narrow, compared to the rest of the tribe. The two ears are little, and 
something unlike: that on the left side comes more sloping down the side, but it 
is not more protuberant. The ridges are small and numerous, at least sixty in 
ali; but from a smooth point grow insensibly rough, and muricated with long 
and slender and sloping points, after the manner of tiling: the inside is altogether 
smooth. This shell is moderately capacious, in the fashion of spoons in use at 
this time. It is of a light brownish sandy colour. There are many of them col- 
lected in cabinets. 
Pecten figura Chama Aldrovandi. 
This is, for the bigness, a thicker and stronger shell than that of No. 192. 29. and 
is also of a longer shape, and not so hollow. It hath about eighteen ridges, which 
are larger than in the scallop mentioned: it is marbled, reddish and white, and 
sometimes bluish; the ear on the left side is narrower much. 
I Pecten tenuis, subrufus, maculosus, circiter viginti striis majoribus at levibus do- 
} natus. Tit. 30 . Lister. de Coeb. Marin. Anim. Ang. 
This is the upper shell, with teeth, of the scallop described 192. 29. where it is to 
be referred. 
This is the toothless and under shell of a scallop. The upper shell hath many very 
small teeth, not only under the hollow of the ear, but running also on the back 
of the ear. The ridges are compounded of.This shell is marbled red 
and white. 
This also is the toothless and under shell of a scallop with a flat rib: it is smooth, 
and curiously marbled with a white and dark hair colour. 
This is a thin and very shallow scallop, all white, prickly: on the one side under the 
lesser ear, which is on the right hand, is a long series or row of small teeth, a 
dozen at least in number; which sufficiently distinguishes it from all I have yet 
seen. This therefore is the upper shell of the scallop. 
These shells are often larger than that figured, and are common in cabinets: they 
are mostly of a red coral colour; the ear on the left side (holding the convex side 
towards your eye) is much the larger. The ridges are about nine, and are very 
large, and (which is very remarkable) are knotted with large knots or hollow 
blisters: both the ridges and furrows are striated. It is a shallow shell, but mo¬ 
derately heavy and strong. N. B. This shell is the toothless under shell. The 
upper and bigger shell is marked tab. 188 . 26. and to be here inserted, and not to 
be disjoined. The difference is, that the upper shell hath few or little blisters, 
and hath five or six teeth under the hollow of the left ear. I have seen very large 
ones of this kind of scallop in collections. 
This is a very beautiful shell, but very common in all collections: it hath about 
fourteen ridges; these ridges are very remarkable, in most triple, and thick 
hatched with a triple row of sharp risings cross-ways. In others, the ridges are 
little or not divided, and the cross-hatehings are nigh also equally drawn from 
side to side. It is prettily marbled red and white ; the borders of the inside yel- 
lowish, or of a gold colour. This shell is but shallow. N. B. It is very remark¬ 
able, that in many scallops, one of the two shells, which we will call the upper 
or bigger shell, hath certain teeth next under the ear on the one side, and that 
eai therefore is more or less hollowed; also the very nib or point of the toothless 
shell is mostly a little flatter. 
