TELLINA FUSCA. 
THE 
TELLINA.—Puate XXVII. 
Differing from Zedlina proxima in being thinner, more 
inflated, rounder, and Jess flexuous. 
Species 147. (Fig. a, 6, Mus. Taylor.) 
Tel. testa tenui, compressa, levi, sor- 

didé albd, nonnungquam roseo fasciatd, epidermide 
JSuscé indutd ; latere postico leviter radiatim angu- 
lato, acuminato et truncato; latere antico breviusculo, 
rotundo, umbonibus acuminatis, dentibus cardinalibus 
obsoletis. 
BROWN Tetiina. Shell thin, flat, smooth, dull 
white, sometimes banded with pink, covered with a 
brown epidermis; posterior side slightly radiately 
angular, acuminated and truncated; anterior side 
rather short, round, umboes acuminated, cardinal 
teeth obsolete. 
TELLINA INCONSPICUA. 
THE INCONSPICUOUS TELLINA. 
Species 148. (Mus. Sowerby.) 
Tel. testa ovato-subtrigond, in- 
flata, levigatd, roseo suffusd, ad umbones vivide rubra; 
latere postico cuneato, subcompresso, attenuato, mar- 
gine dorsali declivi, ventrali sursum acclivi, termino 
obtuso ; latere antico inflato, rotundo, margine dorsalr 
via excavato, umbonibus acutis, ligamento prominente, 
fleaurd subobsoleta. 
Shell ovately triangular, 
inflated, smooth, rose-tinted, bright red at the um- 
boes; posterior side wedge-shaped, rather com- 
pressed, attenuated, with dorsal margin sloping 
downwards, ventral sloping upwards, end obtuse; 
anterior side inflated, round, with dorsal margin very 
slightly excavated, umboes acute, ligament promi- 
Say, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 5. p. 220. 
Hab. North America. 
Rather flat, and of a rounded oval form. 


nent, flexure nearly obsolete. 
Broperre and Sowrrsy, Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 363. 
Hab. Arctic Ocean. 

