198 102 



In reality the lateral teeth (ami the hinge as a whole) are developed as in Tellina 

 emarginata, Sow., to which species also, T. psammotella comes nearest in external 

 appearance. 



Tellina (Tellinides) vestalis, Hani. 



Tellina vcstalis, Hani.ky, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, XII, 1844, p. 141. 



— — — Monograph of the gen. Tellina (Soweriiy, Thesau'r. Concliyl., I), p. 291, No. I'i'I, 



pi. 57, fig. 67. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., XVII, Tellina, Sp. 230. 



— ( Tellinides) vestalis, Hani.ky, Römer in Mahtini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X Bd., 4 Abth., p. 174, 



No. 103, pi. 35, figs. 9-11. 



S. of Koh Kahdat, 8—10 fathoms, mud (1). Between Koh Kahdat and Koh 

 Kut, 6 fathoms, clay mixed with sand (I'/s). W. of Koh Kut, 15 fathoms, mud (Va). 



Long. 9—28 mm. 



Dislrihution: — Karachi (Melvill & Standen), Mauritius. — Philippines. 



I very much doubt whether Römer (Ioc. cit.) had the true T. vestalis, Hani, 

 before him ; neither his figure nor his description agrees with Hanley's species. 



Tellina (Tellinides) ovalis, Sow. 



Tellinides ovalis, G. B. Soweruy, Catalogue of the Shells in the Collect, of the Earl of Tankerville, 1825, 



Append., p. Ill, No. 198. 

 — — — Hanlky, Catal. of rec. biv. shells, p. 73, pi. 13, fig. 56. 



Tellina (Tellinides) ovalis, Sowhrisy, Haniæv, Thesaur. Conchyl., I, p. 296, No. 142, pi. 60, fig. 147. 



— ovalis, SowERBY, Reeve, Conchol. icon., XVII, Tellina, Sp. 105. 



— — — LiscHKE, Japan. Meeres-Conchyl., Ill, p. 94. 



— — — Bertin, Revision d. Tellinides, 1878, p. 284, No. 140. 



— — — Dunker, Index moll. mar. Japon., 1882, p. 190. 



— — — Hidalgo, iMoIusc. mar. de las Isl. Filiplnas, 1903, p. 134, No. 238. 

 Solen ex albido radiatun, Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., VI, 1782, p. 71, pi. 7, figs. 57— 58. 



— slriatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. XIII, p. 3227, No. 19. 

 Tellina tridentata, Anton, Archiv f. Naturg., Ill, 1837, Bd. I, p. 283. 



— gratiosa, Römer in Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X lid., 4 Abtli., p. 170, No. 100, pi. 34 



figs. 10—12. 



OtT Koh Kam, 10 fathoms, gravel (Vs). 

 Long. 37 mm., alt. 235 mm. 



Distribution: — Nicobars, Karachi, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea 

 (fossil, V. Bertin), Madagascar. — Philippines, Moluccas, Japan. 



Tellina (Moerella) semen, Hani. 



Tellina semen, Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, XII, 1844, p. 164. 



— — — Sowerry, Thesaur. Conchyl., I, p. 249, No. 51, pi. 56, fig. 8. 



— (Arcopagia) Semen, Hani.ky, Römer in Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabhi., X Bd., 4 Al)tli., p. 95. 



— (Homala) semen, — V. Bertin, Revision d. Tellinides, p. 303, No. 268. 



— semen, Hanley, Edg. Smith, Report on the Zool. Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean 



during the voyage of "Alert," 1884, p. 99. 



— (?) semen, Hanley, Edg. Smith, Rep. on the Lamellibranchiata of the Challenger Exped., p. 111. 



— (Moera) semen, Hanley, Melvill & Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, p. 821. 



