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in S. aiirantia, but are apparenlly cylindrical; each is deep red ai the tip, the 

 small papillæ in the middle of the valves being the palest in colour. There is also 

 a red spot upon the foot, about lö mm. from its end. 



Fam. Tellinidae. 



Tellina (Tellinella) Deshayesi, Hani. 



Tellina Deshayesii, Hanlky, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, XII, 1844, p. 148. 



— — - SowEHBY, Thesaur. Conchyl., I, p. 223, No. 2, pi. 57, fig. 66. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., XVIl, Tellina, Sp. 200. 



— — — V. Bertin, Revision d. Tellinides, p. 251, No. 52. 



— Deshayesi, — Cho.sse et Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl., vol. 40, 1892, p. 76. 



(Non Tellina Deshayesii, V. Carpenter, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, p. 160, Hab. in Sinu Panamensi). 



Gulf of Siam, west coast of Cambodge (Pavie). 



Distribution: — Aden (Shopland), Red Sea (Hanley(?), V. Bertin). 



The Danish Expedition to Siam collected no specimens of this species. 



Tellina (Tellinella) Spengleri, Martini (Chemn.). 



Das Elfenbeinerne Schifflein oder Navet, L. Spenoler, Bescliäftig. d. Berlin. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, 



I, 1775, pp. H87-94, pi. 9, figs. 1—3. 

 Die Spenglerischen Dïmnmiischel, Martini, Beschäftig, d. Berlin. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, 1, 1775, p. 394. 

 Tellina Spengleri, Martini in Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., VI, 1782, p. 98, pi. 10, figs. 88-90. 



— — — Spengler, Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, IV, 2 H., 1798, p. 77, No. 6. 



— — Chemnitz, Linné, Systema Naturae, ed. XIII cur. Gmelin, p. 3234, No. 30. 



— — — ScHUMACHKK, Essai d'un nouv. système d. habitations d. vers test. 1817, p. 162. 



— — — Hidalgo, Fauna malacol. de las isl. Filipinas, 1903, p. 118. 



— rostrata, (Linné), Hanlev in Sowerby, Thesaurus Conchyliorum, I, 1846, p. 222, No. 1, pi. 61, 



fig. 157. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., vol. XVIl, Tellina, Sp. 83. 



— (Tellinella) rostrata, (Linné), RÖiMer, Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X Bd., 4 Abth., 1871, 



p. 33, No. 19, pi. 3, figs. 5—7; pi. 11, figs. 4—5. 



— — — — V. Bertin, Revision d. Tellinidés, p. 251, No. 51. 



— rostrata, (Linné), Morlet, Journ. de Conchyl., vol. 37, 1889, p. 174. 



— — — P. Fischer, Catal. d. Moll, de I'Indo-Chine, p. 245. 



Hatien (Gulf of Siam) L. Morlet. 



The Danish Expedition to Siam collected no specimens of this species. 



Distri bulion:— Malacca, Nicobars, Bay of Bengal, Ceylon, Madras, Mauritius(?). 

 — Cochin China, Philippines, Moluccas, Banka, Java. 



Linné, in spite of Hanley's assertion in "Ipsa Linnæi Conchylia," has certainly 

 not been clear in his judgment of his species T. rostrata; he has evidently confused 

 T. vulsella, T. Spengleri and T. perna under this name; therefore, I have had no 

 hesitation in following Hidalgo's example and employing Martini's (Chemnitz's) 

 name T. Spengleri for the present species, T. Spengleri being both described and 

 figured very clearly. Spengler already, both in his original collection (which is 

 preserved in the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen) and in his 



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