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breadth, the larger end being without them; these lines 
arc close together at the smaller end, but grow gradually 
more remote, appearing like laminae not incumbent on each 
other; also marked with a few transverse antiquated stride, 
and sometimes two pale rays from the hinge to the oppo¬ 
site margin; inside glossy white, with the margin straight: 
hinge not quite central, a little prominent at the edge, with 
a single thin reflected tooth in each valve, and a gibbosity 
under the cartilage; length nearly three-fourths of an inch; 
breadth an inch and three-quarters. 
The specimen from which this description was drawn 
was found at Scilly. and is in the cabinet of Mrs. W. C. 
Loscombe, oi Exmouth : it lias also been found at Hoath 
in Ireland, by Mr. Tardy, v. m. 
8 . Solen Legutnen. Pod Razor-shell. 
Lister, pi. 420. f. 264— Pennant , pi. 49. f. 3 —Donovan 
pi. 53— Wood, pi. 28. f. 4, 5 —Dorset Cat. pi. 4. f. 4 * 
Shell oblong, nearly straight, a little tapering to one end 
which slopes at the edge like the thumb nail, white covered 
with a gr eenish or yellowish skin, finely striate concentri¬ 
cally : hinge nearly central, with two teeth in each valve, 
one of them diverging, the diverging tooth of one valve 
cloven and terminating in a liook-like process pointing to¬ 
wards the cartilage ; between the teeth is also a short white 
longitudinal rib, and another pointing towards the smaller 
end and running nearly close to and parallel with the back 
margin : length nearly three-quarters of an inch ; breadth 
almost four inches. 
Sandy shores of England and Ireland, but not common. 
v. v . 
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9. Solen antiquatus. 
Pennant , pi. 49. f. 4- 
f. 3. 
Antiquated Razor-shell. 
- Donovan , pi. 114— Wood, pi. 2 
Shell oblong, thin, brittle, opake, white covered with ; 
yellowish-brown wrinkled skin, rounded at both ends 
somewhat kidney-shaped or contracted in the middle o 
the front margin, with a faint longitudinal impression fron 
the lunge which widens as it approaches the front margin 
causing by its edges two obscure divergent lines, strong!) 
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