124 



CONCHYLIA— 2)7T//Fi?^. 31. 



Tellina subfusca. Lister, Conch, tab. 376, fig. 217. 

 Mas. nost. On most sandy shores. 



Shell half an inch long, and more than an inch broad, rather 

 truncate at one end, produced and rounded at the other where it 

 gapes a little, covered with a brown or olive skin, with fine longi- 

 tudinal striae which are not punctured in the interstices, and a litth^ 

 contracted at the margin near the elongated end, of a yellowish, 

 white color under the epidermis^ with often one or two whitish longi- 

 tudinal rays ; inside rich purple : hinge with two teeth in each valve- 

 and a single lateral one. 



denticulata. DoNAX testd cuneatd, strus longitudinalibus punctulatis, area antkd 

 utrinque tranversim rugoso-striata. 

 Shell wedge-shaped, with longitudinal punctured striae, and the an- 

 terior slope with transverse striae on both sides. 

 Donax denticulata. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1127. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3263. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 215. 



Pennant, iv. p. 199, tab. 58, fig. 2. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 262, tab. 26, fig. 256, 257- 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 104. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 76. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 156. 



Dorset Catal. p. 34, tab. 5, fig. 12. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 151. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 41, fig. 19. 

 Donax crenulata. Donovan, British Shells, i. tab. 24. 

 Cuneus truncatus. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 205. 



