TELLINA.—Puate XIV. 
Species 66. (Mus. Sowerby.) 
TELLINA MILES. Tel. testa ovato-pyriformi, tenui, rosed, 
ad umbones rubra, postice albo uniradiaté ; latere 
postico breviusculo, rostrato, attenuato, angulato, post 
angulum depresso, ante angulum contracto, medio 
inflato ; latere antico oblongo, semiovali, inflato, 
margine dorsalt declivi, margine ventrali arcuato, 
dentibus lateralibus tenuibus, inconspicuis. 
THE soLpIpR TELLINA. Shell ovate-pyriform, thin, 
rose-coloured, red at the umboes, with a posterior 

white ray; posterior side rather short, rostrated, 
attenuated, angular, depressed behind the angle, 
contracted in front of the angle, inflated in the 
middle; anterior side oblong, semioval, inflated, 
dorsal margin sloping, ventral margin bowed, lateral 
teeth thin, not conspicuous. 
Haney, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1844; Thesaurus Conchy- 
hiorum, Tellina, p. 188. 
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Hab. 
Much shorter than Zedlina Perna. 

