TELLINA.—P.ate I, 
presso, ante angulum valde flexwoso, margine | 
dorsali declivi, ligamento maximo ; wmbonibus 
rotundis, amplis ; dentibus cardinalibus magnis, 
lateralibus antico approximato, postico maximo, 
subremoto. 
Tue pisc Tevuina. Shell very solid, suborbicular, 
inequivalve, subequilateral, ventricose, nearly 
white, concentrically wrinkled with undulating 
strie, smooth near the umboes, rayed with very 
fine striw, concentric wrinkles near the ventral 
margin and at the sides deep, coarse; right valve 

rather the deeper, overlapping the other at the 
ventral margin ; posterior side angularly impressed 
near the ventral margin, very flexuous; dorsal 
margin sloped; ligament very large; umboes 
rounded, full; cardinal teeth large, lateral anteri 
approximate, posterior very large, rather remote. 
Haney. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1844. 
Hab. Isl. Ticao, Philippines. 
A little more oblique than Tellina remies, with the 
wrinkles less continuous and the posterior angle more 
acute. 

