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CONCHOLOGICAL AUTHORS. 
that in the eighth plate, the figures 1 and 3, of Turbo Pul- 
lus—2, of Voluta tornatilis—4, of Murex costatus—5, of 
Buccinum lineatum— 6 and9, of Turbo Cimex—7, of Mu¬ 
rex Erinaceus—10, of Turbo striatulus—12, of Turbo La¬ 
cuna—13, of Murex reticulatus—and 14, of Strombus cos¬ 
tatus, arc erroneously represented as having the volutions 
reversed: and that all these errors have been copied in 
the fourteenth plate of the Dorset Catalogue. 
Dillwyn. A Descriptive Catalogue of recent Shells, ar¬ 
ranged according to the Linnean method, by Lewis Weston 
Dillwyn, F.R.S. and F. L.S. in two vols. octavo, 1817* 
Of a forcible and comprehensive intellect, Mr. Dillwyn 
has already given sufficient proofs. In his present work, 
however, we cannot resist the suspicion, that he has yielded 
much to conjecture, and formed his specific characters, 
more in accommodation to his own opinions than strict pre¬ 
cision uni 1 justify. 
Tellina ftadula and Venus spuria are united, until the 
specific characters of each combined together. Both the 
species are before us. The former is dull brownish white, 
with numerous rough rasp-like transverse ridges, without 
the longitudinal groove or flexure on the anterior side, 
where the margin runs in a straight direction from the 
beaks ; the inside is slightly striate longitudinally, with two 
primary teeth only in each valve. The latter is glossy- 
white, with a few transverse wrinkles, and a longitudinal 
groove down the anterior side, where the margin is rounded 
from the beaks ; and the inside has no longitudinal strife, 
with three primary teeth in each valve. The Solen vesper- 
tinus of modern authors, is referred to the Tellina albida of 
Linne, with the observation that it answers to the descrip*- 
tion in the Systema Naturae 5 a correspondence which we 
cannot exactly acknowledge. The T. albida 13 described as 
smooth, and having three teeth in each valve. The Solen 
vespertinus is transversely striate, and has a single tooth 
in one valve and two in the other. Our Tellina tenuis, 
which has a single cloven tooth in one valve, and two In. 
the other, with a minute lateral tootli in one valve only, is 
referred to the T. balaustina of Linn4, omitting to observe, 
that this last is described as having lateral teeth in one 
valve 5 valvuld altera dentibus. lateralibus. Mis Venus ri- 
gida. 
