106 CONCRYLl A— DITHYRA. 27. 



Tellina pallide rosea. Chemnitz, vi. p. 105, tab 10, fig. 96. 

 Mus. nost. From the Western and Irish coasts. 



Shell an inch or more in length, and two inches broad, elegantly 

 tapering on the cartilage side to a flexuous and sharp angular point , 

 of a more or less deep uniform orange color : hinge nearly central, 

 with a single tooth and a lateral one each side in one valve, and two 

 teeth and a single lateral one in the other. 



** Valvis bidentatis, ovatcB. 8-9. 

 With two teeth in each valve, and the shell oval. 



stiiata. 

 (>. 



Tellina testa oato- trigond, strils crebris transversis longitudinalibus- 



que minimis, valvis bidentatis cum later alibus. 

 Shell oval-triangular, with crowded transverse striae and minute 

 longitudinal ones, each valve with two teeth and two lateral ones. 

 Tellina striata. Gmelin, Syst. p. 3238. 



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



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 60, tab. 27, fig. 2. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 180. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 53, 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 150. 



Wood, Conch, p. 175. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 92. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 169. 

 Mus. nost. From Guernsea. 





