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down the rounded side, sloping from the beaks on the anterior end,. 

 and marked with numerous fine transverse striae which grow strong- 

 er towards the extremities : beaks not quite central, straight and 

 pointed : hinge with two primary teeth and a lateral laminar one on 

 each side in one valve, one of the primary teeth cloven ; in the 

 other a single cloven tooth, without lateral ones. 



punicea. Tellina testd ovato-oMongd, striis transversis longitudinalibusque 

 minimis, valvd altera bidentatd cum laterali ; altera dente unico cum 

 laterali. 

 Shell oval-oblong, with transverse striae and minute longitudinal 

 ones, one valve two-toothed with a single lateral one, the other 

 with a single primary and lateral tooth. 

 Tellina punicea Gmelin, Syst. p. 3239. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 194. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 179. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 50. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 30, tab. 7, fig. 5. 

 Wood, Conch, p. 170. tab. 39, fig. I. 

 Dilhvyn, Descript. Catal. p. 90. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 171. 

 Tellina Iseta. Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 57. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 149. 

 Tellina inaequistriata. Donovan, British Shells, iv. tab. 123. 

 Tellina striata. Chemnitz, x. p. 349, tab. 170. fig. 1654, 1655. 

 Mus. nost. From Guernsea. 



Shell three quarters of an inch long, and more than an inch 

 broad, rather thick and strong, deep red growing paler towards 



