CONCHYLIA— D/THYB^. 27. 105 



on each side the hinge, and which is visible in a fainter degree on 

 the outside: the other is whitish, cream-color, or violet, without the 

 red spots, but covered more or less with purple arrow-shaped marks 

 usually disposed in rays. We have also specimens without the spots 

 but marked with fawn-colored rays. 



Linne has properly remarked, that in this species the flexure on 

 the anterior side is scarcely distinguishable : there is, however, a 

 slight constriction or indenture of the margin at that end. 



Tellina testa oiato-oblongd, latere antico subrostrato, valvd altera depressa. 



bidentatd cum laterali, altera unideniatd cum lateralibus. 

 Shell oval-oblong, with the anterior side much produced and point- 

 ed, in one valve two teeth and a single lateral one, in the other a 

 single tooth and two lateral ones. 



Tab. nost. 8, fig. tj. 

 Tellina depressa. Gmelirt, Syst p. 3238. 



Turton, Linn. Sy.st. iv. p. 186. 

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

 Donovan, British Shells, v. tab. 163. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 51. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 30, tab. 5. fig. 2. 

 Wood, Conch, p. 171, tab. 45, fig. 3. 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 91. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 1/1. 

 Tellina squalida. Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 56. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 149. 



