‘THE 
TELLINA.—Puate VI. 
antico oblique declivi, inflato, margine ventrali con- 
vexo, postice ante angulum sursum acclivi, valvulad 
sinistrd postice canalifero, ligamento partim interno, 
dentibus lateralibus nullis, umbonibus prominentibus, 
angularibus. 
GUTTERED TELLINA. Shell subquadrate, ventri- 
cose, thin, elevated, minutely wrinkled with thin 
concentric raised stria, white, banded with pale 
fawn, posterior side much inflated, short, the um- 

bonal rib wide, strong, and angular, postangular 
area convex, obscurely ribbed, anterior side obliquely 
sloping, inflated, ventral margin convex, posteriorly 
in front of the angle sloping upwards, ligament partly 
internal, no lateral teeth, umboes prominent, an- 
gular. : 
Cuemnitz, Conch. vol. iv. p. 92. f. 78. 
Tellina papyracea, Gmel. 
Hab. Guinea. 

