CONCHYLIA— D/Tijyi?^. 27. 101 



the hinge, with often pale and irregular longitudinal rays, and a few 

 minute longitudinal striae which are usually visible at the anterior 

 side only: beaks nearly central. 



It is a much stronger and more opake shell than the Tellina 

 lineata, and is distinguished in having a single lateral tooth in each 

 of the valves. 



Tellina testa ovatd, antice Jlexuoso-acuminatd, valvd altera oblique Fabula. 



striata, altera Icevi. 

 Shell oval, flexuous and pointed at the anterior side, with one of the 



valves obliquely striate and the other smooth. 

 Tellina Fabula. amelin. Syst. p. 3239. 



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



Donovan, British Shells, iii. tab. 97. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 61. 



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



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 52. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 150. 



Dorset Catal. p. 30, tab. 12, fig. 3 and 3 a. 



Wood, Conch, p. 1-56, tab. 45, fig. 4. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 9 1 . 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 170. 

 Mus. nost. On most sandy coasts. 



Shell half an inch long and three quarters of an inch broad, thin, 

 transparent, glossy white reflecting metallic colors, tapering to a 

 point and flexuous at one end : the right valve smooth, or only 

 marked with faint irregular transverse striae ; the left with fine 

 regular oblique longitudinal lines : in the smooth valve is a 



