118 GO^GEYLl A— DITHYRA. 29. 



Tab. nost. 1, fig. 15. 

 Tellina carnaria. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1119. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3240. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 195. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 130, tab. 13, fig. 126. 



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



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 73. 



Donovan, British Shells, ii. tab. 47. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 57. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 151. 



Dorset Catal. p. 31, tab. 5. fig. 6. 



Wood, Conch, p. 189, tab. 40, fig. 4, 5. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 100. 



Turton, Conch. Diet., p. 177. 

 Cardium carneosum. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 181. 

 Pectunculus tenuis. Lister, Conch, tab. 339- fig. 176. 

 Mus. nost. Supposed to be from the Western coasts. 



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

 or less deeply tinged with a fine rose-color, with often an oblong 

 rosy spot on each side of the hinge, of a roundish-oval form and 

 rather flat, marked in the middle with oblique longitudinal striae, 

 which at the shorter end are curved and flexuous, and at the pro- 

 duced end with straight striae which meet with the oblique ones and 

 form angles : beaks near one end : hinge with two teeth in each 

 valve, one of them cloven. 



A comparison of this shell with the Tellina bimaculata will illus- 

 trate the relative positions of the cartilage. In the Strigilla it 

 is placed on the longer side, in the Tellina on the shorter; a 



