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SOLEXID^.
of having neglected the writings of my own countrymen,
and of having thus caused some confusion or inconvenience to those who study the European MoUusca. I
do not regret the trouble I have taken in making this
concordance, hoping and believing that it will save the
labour of my fellow- workmen. Turton must have been
mistaken in saying that S. striyilatus had been dredged
in Torbay, and found by General Bingham in Cornwall,
and by Mrs. Loscombe in the Scilly Isles. The collection of that lady was sold by auction about 25 years
ago, when I purchased, through the late Mr. G. B.
Sowcr])y, all the supposed British Shells contained in it.
Among them were specimens of S. striyilatus and many
other undoubtedly Mediterranean species, as Avell as a
few from the Arctic seas. S. striyilatus is a much
larger shell than B. candidus, and usually rose-coloured
with two white rays.
2. S. ANTiQUA Tus*, Pultency.
Solcn anfiquatus, Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 28, pi. iv. f. 5. Solecurtus coarctatus,
F. & H. i. p. 259, pi. XV. f. 3, and (animal) pi. I. f. 5.
Body rather compressed, entirely white : mantle having its
edges fringed with short cirri : tubes capable of being inllated
to three times their ordinary diameter, united for a considerable
distance; from their bases, and separate at their extremities ;
orifice of the branchial tube cirrous, that of the excretory one
plain : (/ills partly lodged in the lower portion of the siphonal
sheath, the upper pair much shorter than the other : jxilj^s
distinctly pectinated within, and less so on the outside : foot
tliick and fleshy.
SnELL elliptical, with an oblique outline, compressed throughout, but especially in the middle, solid, opacpic, slightly glossy :
sculpture, Tuimerous and irregular concentric striie, and minute
lon^'itudinal lines like those in S. candidus, but much less
distinct ; the surface is also covered with e(|ually minute and
* Decayed.
SOLEXID^.
of having neglected the writings of my own countrymen,
and of having thus caused some confusion or inconvenience to those who study the European MoUusca. I
do not regret the trouble I have taken in making this
concordance, hoping and believing that it will save the
labour of my fellow- workmen. Turton must have been
mistaken in saying that S. striyilatus had been dredged
in Torbay, and found by General Bingham in Cornwall,
and by Mrs. Loscombe in the Scilly Isles. The collection of that lady was sold by auction about 25 years
ago, when I purchased, through the late Mr. G. B.
Sowcr])y, all the supposed British Shells contained in it.
Among them were specimens of S. striyilatus and many
other undoubtedly Mediterranean species, as Avell as a
few from the Arctic seas. S. striyilatus is a much
larger shell than B. candidus, and usually rose-coloured
with two white rays.
2. S. ANTiQUA Tus*, Pultency.
Solcn anfiquatus, Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 28, pi. iv. f. 5. Solecurtus coarctatus,
F. & H. i. p. 259, pi. XV. f. 3, and (animal) pi. I. f. 5.
Body rather compressed, entirely white : mantle having its
edges fringed with short cirri : tubes capable of being inllated
to three times their ordinary diameter, united for a considerable
distance; from their bases, and separate at their extremities ;
orifice of the branchial tube cirrous, that of the excretory one
plain : (/ills partly lodged in the lower portion of the siphonal
sheath, the upper pair much shorter than the other : jxilj^s
distinctly pectinated within, and less so on the outside : foot
tliick and fleshy.
SnELL elliptical, with an oblique outline, compressed throughout, but especially in the middle, solid, opacpic, slightly glossy :
sculpture, Tuimerous and irregular concentric striie, and minute
lon^'itudinal lines like those in S. candidus, but much less
distinct ; the surface is also covered with e(|ually minute and
* Decayed.