8G CONCHYLIA— i)/T//yi?^. 26. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 163. 

 Solen biden.s. Chemnitz, vi. p. 203, tab 198, fig. 1939. 



Mus. nost. From Dublin bay, and Exuiouth. 



Shell nearly half an inch long, and nearly an inch broad, thin 

 aid transparent, rounded at both end.s and a little contracted in the 

 iniddle, pale horn-color or covered with a greeni.sli skin, with a red- 

 dish longitudinal stripe from the hinge growing fainter and broader 

 towards the margin : inside with a longitudinal rib in the middle : 

 in one valve two erect teeth, one of which is pointed, the other 

 broad and flattened at the top. 



As both the Solen fraeilis and the Telina fraoilis ol former 

 authors fall into this genus, it was necessary that the specific name 

 of one of them should be changed : and as the Tellina fragilis is a 

 Linnean and a prior appellation, we have denominated this species 

 from the red fillet which proceeds from the hinge in both valves. 



florida. PsAMMOBiA testci ovuto- oblongd, .^triiiis transversis crehris longitudina- 

 Ubusqiie minimis. 

 Shell oval-oblong, with close- set transverse stria; and minute long- 

 itudinal ones. 



Tub. nost. 6, fig. 9. 

 Mus. nost. Western coasts, and Ireland. 



Shell half an inch long, and an inch broad, rather convex, 

 nearly equally rounded at both ends, variously marked with pur- 

 ple red or yellow zones and longitudinal rays, and colored on 



