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TeUina {Tellinella) inflata, Chemnitz, Edg. Smith, Proc. ZooI. Soc. London, 1891, p. 426, No. 211. 



— striatala, Lamarck, Hist. nat. d. anim. s. vert., V, 1818, p. 529, No. 33. — éd. 2, VI, p. 201, No. 33. 



— — — Hanley, Soweuhy, Thés. Conchyl., I, p. 255, No. fil, pi. 61, fig. 175. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., vol. XVII, TeUina, Sp. 34. 

 Arcopagia — — Bertin, Révision d. Tellinidés, p. 32(1, No. 9. 



TeUina hippopoidea, Jonas, Philippi, Abbild, u. Ueschieib. neuer od. wen. gek. Conchy)., I, p. 72 (8), TeUina, 

 pi. 1, fig. 3. 



Koh Lan, 30 fathoms, mud (^/s). Koh Kram, 30 fathoms (1). S. of Koh Chuen, 

 30 fathoms, shells (',2). Cape Liant, 9 fathoms, shells (^ a). N. of Koh Kahdat, 

 4 — 5 fathoms, coarse sand (1). S. of Koh Kahdat, 8-10 fathoms, mud ('/a). Between 

 Koh Kut and Koh Kahdat, 6 — 10 fathoms, shells (-/s). W. of Koh Kut, 15 fathoms, 

 mud (-/a). S. of Koh Mak, 5—6 fathoms (2). 



Long. 12—30 mm. 



Distribution: — Singapore (shallow water, Sv. Gad), Nicobars, Andamans, 

 Ceylon, Aden, Red Sea, Suez, Zanzibar, Mauritius. — Philippines, China, Celebes, 

 Java, Port Curtis, New Caledonia. 



Chemnitz's original specimens of T. inflata (in the Zoological Museum of the 

 University of Copenhagen) are very large and rather thick-valved,' but they exactly 

 agree with Reeve's figure of T. striatula, Lam., and with the specimens from the Gulf 

 of Siam. V. Bertin, who has had an opportunity of consulting Lamarck's original 

 specimens of striatula, in his "Révision" gives both Reeve's and Hanley's (Sowerby) 

 striatula as synonyms of the present species. Römer (in Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. 

 Cabin.) is mistaken with regard to his inflata, Ch., neither his description nor his 

 figures agree with Chemnitz's species;- Bertin also says that Rö.mer is wrong in 

 reporting striatula, Lam., to be young specimens of the West Indian T. fausta, Pult. The 

 specimens from the Gulf of Siani, all of which are rather small and consequently 

 thin-valved, entirely agree with Reeve's figure of striatula. It appears as if the 

 convexity of the valves varies somewhat in this species; thus, in a specimen from 

 the Gulf of Siam, measuring 25 mm. in breadth and 21 mm. in height, the thick- 

 ness is 105 mm., while in an individual from Suez, ^ of the same breadth and 

 height, it is only 7 mm. 



Tellina languida, Edg. Smith, is very closely related to the present species. 



TeUina (Arcopagia) pinguis, Hani. 



TeHina pinguis, Hanlev, Proc. ZooI. Soc. London, XII, 1844, p. 63. 



— — — Sowerby, Thesaur. Conchyl., I, p. 252, No. 55, pi. 56, fig. 34. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., XVU, TeUina, Sp. 172. 



— Arcopagia) pinguis, Hanley, Römer in Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X Rd., 4 Abth., p. 96. 

 Arcopagia pinguis, Hanley, V. Bertin, Révision d. Tellinidés, p. 322, No. 15. 



' Chemnitz's figure is not good and is partially misleading. 



-' Römer is liard to be understood, when his figure of inßata fpl. 15, figs. 1 — 3) is compared with 

 the figure of striatula by Hanley (pl. 61, fig. 175), which he gives as a synonym; the two figures do 

 not resemble each other in the least. 



' In the Zoological Museum of the Universitj' of Copenliagen, received from L. Vaillant, who has 

 determined it as T. truncata, Hani. (Journ. de Conchyl., 1865, p. 121, No. 79). 



