Pvn H,i I'UitlS

334 VENERIDiE.
the Azores (Drouet). Brocchi and Philippi have de-
scribed it as fossil from the middle and newer tertiaries
of Italy. It is
essentially a southern species.
All we know of the animal is derived from Poli, who
called it Callista coccinea and devoted three and a half
folio pages to its description and anatomy. It must be a
gorgeous spectacle. He gives various recipes for cook-
ing it, showing that his gastronomic was as strong as
his conchological taste. The shell attains greater dimen-
sions than those which I have given, being occasionally
three inches long and three and a half inches broad, or
even more.
In the tenth edition of the c
appears
Systema
Naturae Linne
to have confounded V. Chione with an allied
species from tropical seas, the habitat given by him
being "in O. Asiatico ; forte etiam in Europaeo." It
is the Pectunculus glaber of Da Costa, who quotes Dr.
Leigh (the
author of the '
History of Lancashire ') as
his authority for stating that it was got on the coasts of
Cheshire ; Agassiz called it Cytherea Icevis, and Leach
Chione coccinea. The young was described by Lamarck
under the name of Cytherea nitidula ; but his fossil of
the same name from Grignon is a different species.
C. Mantle- tubes partly disunited and diverging. Shell triangular,
ornamented with concentric laminar ribs, and
sometimes cancellated by longitudinal striae ;
inside margin
notched, except at the posterior side.
4. V. fascia'ta *, Da Costa.
Pectunculus fasciatus, Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 188, tab. xiii, f. 3. J',
fasciata, F. & H. i. p. 415. pi. xxiii. f. 3, pi. xxvi. f. 7, and (animal) pi. L.
f. 7.
Body suborbicular, compressed, rather thick : mantle muscular
at the edges, which are fringed with line white filaments
* Banded.