«S CONCHYLIA— D/Ti/yjRJ. 2G. 



transversely, and longitudinally in a minute manner : color varying 

 from pale yellow to deep purple, and marked with crimson blotchi-s 

 or stripes: beaks nearly central, a little prominent, not inclining to 

 either side : inside colored like the outside and generally more vivid ; 

 in ona valve a slightly cloven tooth closing between two in the other, 

 one of which is slightly cloven. 



Of this nondescript and most beautiful shell we have taken by th(* 

 dredge four line specimens, three of which were living ones. 



liagilis. PsAMMOBiA testd ohovatci tumidd, anfice fiexuosd suhrostrutd, striix 



4. 



trnnsversis lamellatis loncj'itudinaUhusque minimis. 

 Shell oboval tumid, Hexuous and produced at the anterior end, with 

 transverse laminar striaj and minute longitudinal ones. 

 Tah. nost. 7 tig. 1 1 and 12. 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1117. 

 Gmelin. Syst, p. 3230. 

 Tiirton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 185. 

 Chemnitz, vi. p. 95, tab. 9, iig. 84. 

 Wood, Conch, p. 148. 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 78. 

 Turton, Conch- Diet. p. 166, fig. 18. 

 Tellina jugosa. Brown, Wern. Soc. ii. p. 506, tab. 24, fig. 2. 

 Tellina lata. Lister, Conch, tab. 390, fig. 229. 



Mus. nost. Dublin, Valentia, and Bantry bays. 



Shell an inch or more long, and an inch and a half wide, thin, 

 brittle, white or brownish, very tumid at the larger end, and 



