104 CONCHYLIA— DJrHYJ?^. 27. 



Tab. nost. 8, fig. 5. 

 1. maculis binis sanguineis oblongis sub umbones. 

 with two oblong red spots under the hinge. 

 2. maculis violaceis radiato-sagittatis. 

 Tellina bimaculata. Ldnn. Syst. Nat. p. 1120, 

 Gmelin, Syst. p. 3240. 

 Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 196. 

 Chemnitz, vi. p. 132, tab. 13, fig. 127-132. 

 Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 213. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 183. 

 Montagu, Te.st. Brit. p. 69. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 57. 

 Turton, British Fauna, p. 151. 

 Donovan, British Shells, i. tab. 19, fig. 1. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 31, tab. 5. fig. 7. 

 Wood, Conch, p. 192, tab. 45, fig. 6 and 7. 

 Dillivyn, Descript. Catal. p. 101. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 178. 

 Mus. nost. From the Western Coasts. 



Shell half an inch long, and a little more in breadth, flat, slightly 

 and irregularly striate transversely, somewhat truncate and angular 

 at the anterior end, rounded at the other : hinge with a single tootli 

 and two lateral ones in one valve, and two primary and two lateral 

 teeth in the other. 



The two varieties exactly agree with each olher in their out- 

 line and specific marks, but constantly preserve their separate 

 colors. One is depicted on the inside with a deep red oblong spot 



