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L. 10436. Three casts of a depressed orbicular species ; from 

 Fowler's Bay District, South Australia. H. Y. L. Brown Coll. 



L. 10428. Casts in argillaceous limestone of a large depressed 

 species. Miocene : Akuakua (upper beds), New Zealand. 



8ir James Hector Coll. 



L. 10431. Imperfect shell of a species referable to the sub- 

 genus Divaricella ; (locality ?) New Zealand. 



JF. B. D. Mantell Coll. 



Family TELLINID^. 



Genus TELLINA, Linnseus. 

 [Spt. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 674.] 



Shell elongately oval, suborbicular, or transverse, compressed, 

 attenuated and furnished posteriorly with a decurrent oblique 

 plication ; hinge having two cardinal teeth on each valve, and two 

 lateral teeth (one anterior and one posterior) which are generally 

 obsolete on the left valve ; pallial sinus very deep. 



Type. — Tellina virgata, Linnseus. 



Tellina albinelloides, Tate. 



1887. Tellina albinelloides, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust. vol. ix. 

 p. 164, pi. xvi. figs. 4a-J. 



Shell oval, compressed, subangular, and slightly folded posteriorly ; 

 umbones inconspicuous ; exterior ornamented with fine, regular, 

 concentric striae, which are raised on the posterior slope ; siphonal 

 inflection confounded with the pallial line. The author compares 

 it, at some length, with T. alhineUa, inhabiting Southern Australian 

 seas. 



Dimensions. — Height 12-5 mm. ; length 23 mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Miocene : Muddy Creek, Victoria. 



L. 9864. Left valve of the neanic stage of growth. Purchased. 



