126 CONCHYLI A— D/Ti/Fi?^. 31. 



Shell three quarters of an inch long, and nearly an inch and a 

 half broad, smooth and glossy, yellowish or purplish, generally va- 

 riegated with paler spots and irregular markings, but always distin- 

 guished by a white and rather oblique broad longitudinal fillet from 

 the hinge on the shorter side, and which widens as it approaches 

 the margin ; rounded at the lengthened side, and obliquely pointed 

 at the other: beaks nearer the more pointed end ; inside whitish or 

 2>urple: hinge with two teeth in each valve, one of them cloven : 

 and a single lateral tooth in both valves. 



plebeia. DoNAX testd ovato-ohloiigd loevi, vitfis duabus fulvis longitudinalibus, 

 dente laterali in utrdque valvd. 

 Shell oval-oblong smooth, with two longitudinal fulvous bands, a 



single lateral tooth in each valve. 

 Donax j)lebeia, Montagu, p. 107. tab. 5, fig. 2. 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 76. 

 Turton, British Fauna, p. 156. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 199. 

 Dorset Catal. p, 38, tab. 5. fig. 13. 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 102. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 42. 

 Tellina parva. Lister, Conch, tab. 389, fig. 228. 



Mus. nost. From the beach at Teignmouth. 



Shell about half an inch long, and three quarters of an inch 

 broad, thick and strong, smooth, of a dull yellowish horn-color, with 

 the teeth large and strong, and a single lateral one in each valve. 



