TELLINA.—Puate XXXI. 
convex, smooth; posterior side short, with a decided 
angle, dorsal margin sloping, subtruncated, basal end 
acuminated, flexure arched, ventral margin gradually 
sloping upwards; anterior side obliquely produced, 
dorsal margin sloping, ventral margin convex. 
Haney, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1844. 
Hab, Philippines. 
shell are so minute as not to be visible without very close 
inspection. 

Fig. 176, on left side by error. 
Species 41 4, Mus. Taylor, TELLINA PYGM®A, var. 

Species 176, lower figure. (Mus. Taylor.) 
TELLINA PuDICA. Tel. testd parva, alba, solidd, laevigata, 
Species 175. (Mus. Taylor.) 
ovato-subcuneatd ; latere postico acuminato, subros- 
TELLINA OBLIQUILINEATA. Tel. testd pared, compressa, trato, vix flexuoso, margine dorsali prope umbones 
THE OBLIQUE-LINEATED TELLINA. 
solidd, alta, cuneatd, stramined, lineis impressis ob- 
liquis, antice flexuosis striatd ; latere postico brevi, 
acuminato, obtuse angulato, leviter flewuoso ; latere 
antico expanso, inflato, rotundo, margine dorsali con- 
vero, umbonibus parvis, acutis, ligamento parvo, pro- 
minenti. 
Shell small, com- 
pressed, solid, elevated, cuneate, straw-coloured, stri- 
ated with oblique lines, flexuous in front; posterior 
side short, acuminated, obtusely angular, slightly 
flexuous ; anterior side expanded, inflated, rounded, 
dorsal margin convex, umboes small, acute, ligament 
small, prominent. 
THE 
depresso, versus terminum convexo, margine ventrali 
sursum acclivi ; latere antico rotundo, inflato, expan- 
so, margine dorsalt convexo-declivi, umbonibus promi- 
nentibus. 
CHASTE TELLINA. Shell small, white, solid, smooth, 
oval-subeuneate ; posterior side acuminated, subros- 
trated, scarcely flexuous, with dorsal margin de- 
pressed near the umboes, convex towards the termi- 
nation, ventral margin sloping upwards; anterior 
side rounded, inflated, expanded, dorsal margin con- 
vexly sloping, umboes prominent. 
Haney, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1844. 
Hab. 
Catbalonga, Isle of Samar, Philippines. 
ConraD, Journ. Acad. Nat. Hist. Philad. 7. 
fab. Sandwich Islands. 
The oblique lines which cover the entire surface of the 
A much more solid and tumid little shell than Tedlina 
pudica, and without the impressed lines of that species. 


