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SOLEN. RAZ OR-SHELL. 
running down the back from the hinge: valves convex, 
one end obliquely cut off, with a strong indenture or liga- 
ture just beneath the edge : hinge with a single tooth in 
each valve, closing one upon the other, the upper-one 
broad and slightly notched at the base : length three quar¬ 
ter^ of an inch ; breadth nearly five inches. 
On sandy coasts, but rather rare, v, v. 
4. Solen Ensis. Scimitar Razor-shell. Fig. 61. 
Lister, pi. 411. f. 257— Pennant, pi. 48. f. 2— Donovan , 
pi. 50— l rood, pi. 28. f. 1, 2—Dorset Cat. pi. 4.f. 3. 
Shell curved, slender, thin, brittle, transparent, covered 
with a greenish horn-colored skin, spotted with brown, dia¬ 
gonally divided ; one of the triangles marked with pale 
purplish and whitish bands ; both "the ends rounded; the 
cartilage margin sloping to a fine edge : hinge with a sin¬ 
gle tooth and lateral rib in one valve, and two in the other 
with a grooved or double rib : length about half an inch; 
breadth four inches. Young shells are nearly straight. 
Mr. Diliwyn says that there are two teeth in each valve, 
differing in this respect from all other authorities, and from 
the fact itself. But Mr. Diliwyn sometimes writes care¬ 
lessly. He has quoted Mr. Wood’s figures 2, 3, and 4, of 
the plate 34, both for Solen minutus, and Solen variegatus: 
and for a figure of this shell, the S. Ensis, he has referred 
to Mr. Wood’s plate of the Mya nodulosa. 
On most sandy coasts, v. v . 
5. Solen pellucidus. Transparent Razor-shell. 
Pennant, pi. 49. f. 2—Donovan, pi. YoS—Wood, pi. 28. 
I * O. 
Shell slightly curved, oblong, thin, transparent, rounded 
at each end, and rather flattened, covered with a greenish- 
bi own skin, striate transversely but not divided diagonally: 
hinge with a single tooth in one valve, locking between 
two in t ie other, and a slight lateral process in each : 
length a quarter of an inch ; breadth nearly an inch. 
It differs from the last, in not being nearly so wide in 
proportion to its length, and in not being diagonally divided 
with one of the triangles colored. 
Cornwall, Sandwich, and Anglesea. 
v , m. 
G. Solen 
