CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA V18

GONCHOLOaiA ICONICA: ILLIJSTEATIONS SHELLS OF MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS VOL XVIII CONTAINING MONOGRAI'IIS OF TUE GENEHA NUCULA SC.VPHANDER PHOLAS YOLDIA UTRICULUS L-EDA OSTR.EA LIXTERIA PLAC UNA ETHERIA PHILIXE BULLINA ]\IIILLERIA CLAVAGELLA SOLENELLA NEILO LIMN.EA LIMA •pholadomya DENTALIUM succinea CORBIS :magilus LOVELL AUGUSTUS KEEVE, F.L.S., F.G.S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF WURTEMBDEG, OF THE LYCEU] NEW OF NATURAL HISTORY OF YORK, OP THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, ANI OP THE ZOOLOGIOO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF VIENNA CONTINUED BY G B SOWERBY, F.L S " Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would i-ue." ; Stniinciflecl L REEVE & CO., 5, LONDON: HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1873 — MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS P H I L I N what a happy life were mine Under the hollow-hung ocean green." Oh E, ! Tennyson PhihiuPi.l ^^; Sowerby, del el lith Vmceiit Brooks Day* Soii.lmp H P I L I N Genus PIIILINE, Ascaimis E elevato, sahacuminato, suhcontracto, antice late sub- emarginato, anfractu penultimo angustuto Testa spiralis, pateliifonnis, ovata, vel suhquadrata, alba, tenuis, The spird ccetatd, anfractibus paucis, jmioribiis Shell spiz-al, patelliforin, ovate thin, spire concealed, or subquadrate, white, and very interesting species, such as Ph Catena, Ph pminosa, and others well known to by the shells alone the large Australian species from the Mediterranean and British Ph qimdripartita and Ph aperta, It is difficult to distinguish British naturalists for the variations in form are repeated in each species Although the fourteen species now enumerated exhaust the list of those that are now known, there can owing to the concealment of the shell subacuminated, rather white, con- timate whorl narrow Linnoeus Systema Naturas Bidlcea quadripartita Ascanias BulluBa Schro'tcri Philippi Lobaria quadrilohata Muller Hah Philippines ? Cape of Good Mediterranean Great Britain Hope ? This being the prevailing form of British and Medi- name ought to be renew one adopted by Philippi terranean Philine, the original tained, rather than the be no doubt that the number of existing species must in reaUty be much greater that have not been brought to light, ovately rounded, sides rounded, outer lip pos- ; elevated, Bulla apeuta we coasts, Shell imdulated tracted, anteriorly widely subemarginated, penul- whorls few, the earlier ones PUline aperta of our ovm possess several small Philine teriorly small, the last large, widely open Besides the open lightly parvis, magna, late aperto Species (Mus Sowerby.) by the Ph Philine coreanica animal intetruments iestd oblongd, rectiusculd, stib- complanatd, pallidissime fulvd, postice angastiusculd, lateribus rectiusadis, apcrturd postice siibcontractd, Species Ph Philine Pl.\nci.\na (Mus Brit.) ohUmfjA, tet-td vtrinque rotundatA siibqitadratd, sides rather straight, outer lip sub- posteriorly truncated, slightly contracted above the centre Euum Moll Sic i p 91 Hah British Mediterranean Isles behind, sides rather straight, aperture contracted posteriorly, fig Chemnitz referred common British and Mediterranean (Fig a, Philine Angasii vel leviter (Fig a, Ph Bulla, b, c, Mus Sowerliy.) undatd; lateribus rotundatis, labio externa postice Mus Sowerby ; tig c, Mus Cum Ph testd magnd, ovato-suhquadratd undnlatd, aperturd laid, postice subquadratd, ; anfractu penultimo elongato Angas's Philine testa orato-rotundatd, alba, leviter b, acuminatd, albd, spiraliter substriatd, concentr-ice elevatd Philine apeiita species 139 in Brit.) shell Species ; Philippines to as the Philine quadripartitn of Ascanias certainly represents the prevailing form of the at both ends IC6 Hab Korean Archipelago Specii figure in rounded Sowerby's Thesaurus A Adams A Adams, not Ascanias Philine quadripartita The Shell oblong, rather straight, Philine rather flattened, very pale fawn, rather narrow subtruncato, supra medium stibcontracto Planche's PniLiXE Shell oblong, subquadrate, smooth, Philippi The Korean labia externa postice Imvigatd, lateribus rectiiiscidis, Shell large, ovately subquadrate, or acuminated, white, spirally substriated, concentrically October 1870 slightly undulated, aperture wide, poste- PIIILINE.— Plate riorly subquadrate, elevated ; opacis distantibiis, antice angidatis notatd penultimate whorl Eab Port Lincoln, It is difficult, if aperta, &c., Australia Ph Planciana The animal and it is \-EP,T rate, labia ; aperturd extemo angii- THDNCATE PniLKE straighter character of angular in front ; however, widely truncated ; specimens, above mentioned probable, from the locality, that the subquad- Shell short, diaphanous, subcompressed, thin, marked with distant concentric opaque lines which are Australian species from Ph attain a larger size than either of the species, TuE not impossible, to distinguish the of this ; lato some of them taking the Philippi's tmncatd antice latissiind, late elongated Adams Pro Zool Sec variable forms I aperture very wide in front, outer angular lip SOWERBT Ilah is different This transparent little species is remarkable for the truncated character of the widened anterior, producing Species (Fig a, PniLiNE TEirNCATissiMA siihcompressd, tenui b, Ph Mus Sowerby.) tcstd Iri'vi, diaphand, subquadrotd, liiieis conceiitricis an angle on the lower part of the outer lip beautifully indicated by the opaque white neating the edges of former outer lips ; which is lines deli- riillinr PI li^ ^i) V l§ ^- SowerLydel et lith \ Vincent Brooks Diiv* II Dcntaluuii ri M Vinceu I, Brooks Diy i Son Imp VI D E N T A L I U M VI (Mus Species 37 Deshayes JIoi lirit.) Dentalium vitra Dentalium Den l.\cteuji siMi/aliiii'i, te/td amjustd crefcenii, rectimruld, politd, lacted, lente keci, Hah West Ind ; apice integro The Dentalium milk-white smooth, Shell nitlior milk-white, slowly poli.shed, rather curved, narrow ; apex liyiiline, increasing, entire •alium Deshayes Monograph of Dentaliiim Hub East Indian A very plain Seas shell, and without any narrower than (Mus Hanley.) Species 38 Dkniamu.m I'OLiTU.M 'jnidiitii/i Dinitaliinii entails fissure at the a])e.\ Ih'ti cresceiiti, iiicisis vbliquis testd pallide fulvd, an;/n.^ld, arcuatA, polita, len'ter ntMierosis concentriris cinctd strii.t ; Ji.(ilituni, Z/ftttOiMs l)i)ir;it,um, VII Z«;//(//'i7i- 6'o(r(';7/// 7''(i/'it.< IV VII V V VI rectum, Gnu'lin V rubeseens, Deshayes IV V sectuni, Dishaiics V VI .emipulin.n,,N-.r-r/,v II sexcostatiiiii, Smr, I- r/'y III 11 hexagonum, Gould II hyalinum, VII Tarentinuni, Lamarck III tetragoniim, Soirerby IV VII translucidum, Deshayes VI interstriatum, Sowerby II varialjilc, IV inversum, Deshayrs -.w amxm, Suwcrby \' Zeat'/i I ndicmn, Chemmtz intercalatum, Gould HI Z>M/(n^// R B C " Infinite strength and equal Shine through Thy works S, I skill abroad amazement Our souls with vast And speak the builder God."' fill, Wnffx Crr/H.sfl [ H^- I ^^ô^- Sowerby (iel ri l.iih v'lrjcciiL liroc'te.Day i Sou Imp R B C Genus CORBIS, Cuvier LiNN^us Systema Naturse Testa transverse ovata, cequivalvis, crassa ' snilpta Cardo medinnis, et cancellatim ; dentihus diiobi/s duohus lateraJihus, antiro s>tbapprnxi- postico niato, valva utrinqiie CartUago distanlt S I lifjamentifera Corbis elegans, Deshayes (var.) Hab Indian The seas sculpture is growth than shell's coarser in the earlier portion of the it becomes after the shell attains a svbextema ImpressionesmuscularesdvcB; impressio more mature development, when towards the ventral pallii simplex margin the radiating Shell trausveTselj ovate, eqiuvalve, tliick, -with a can- Hinge oi'llated sculpture central teeth and two in each valve with two the anterior near, lateral, Muscular impressions two the posterior remote ; impressions of the mantle simple by the character of the hinge wrinkles become verse and finer specimens the coarser sculpture and the trans- continued over a larger portion of the surface than in others this is the case, the name of some In closer is When Corbis elegans would be applied to the variety so caused This genus, of which we know only two species, allied ribs almost die out, entirely a question of degree that It it is, is however, so impossible to is to the " Td/inidee," divide any extensive series of specimens into the two species but Viy Both general form and structure to the ^^ Veneridce." species are products of Species CoRMs Species Connis FIMBRIATA (Mus Brit.) Cor alba, testa lihi/s iiiihrii-atig ct striis eellata : atUice ad pallid'- tiiieta ; can- margine denliculato ; umbonibus unequal imbricated ribs and and wTinkles; transverse white subcentral ; CoitBis inter striis Shell ; estate liras interstitial radiating within; hinge ; undulated often slightly margin denticulated, radhtntilnis juniori compressii, whitish, veutricose, orna- ; banded pale colour with rays cancellated with subconcentric, tinged with orange and red umboes et ; Shell white, sometimes rose at the sides, thick, rugose striffi, laqueatis, mented with laminated, standing out concentric ridges fluted in front and striae radiating between in the young within a little orange the ridges cardine sape aurantio mbroque kimbiu.\ted Cordis Brit.) ventricosd, albidd liris rosea radiatini fasciatd Sowerbt's snbrentralibvs The Mus Cuming in testa ornatd, intus subaureo interstitialibus radiantibns, traiisversis mbeoncentricis, vndidatis, ii/tus alba, b, Cor la?miiatis extantibus concentricis, subcequidista/itibiis iioiimnirjvam latera ]iaUide sxihrosea, crassa, riigosd; costis inceqiia- el mill's (Fig a, SowEiUiYi Reeve Proc Zool Soc, 1841 Hab Indian In its seas young state, compressed and rayed, bears a very strong resemblance to a the Paris basin November, 1872 fossil this shell Corbis in