TELLINA.—Piare XXXVIIL. 
Species 218. (Mus. Cuming in Brit.) 


posteriorly concentrically suleated; posterior side 
TeLurna conspicua. el. testé ovali-subtrigond, com- slightly angular, dorsal margin sloped, end truncated, 
press, complanatd, altd, albd, tenui, Levigata, posticé ventral margin equally convex ; anterior side rather 
concentrice sulcata ; latere postico leviter angulato, short, dorsal margin sloped, end obtusely cunea 
margine dorsali declivi, termino truncato, margine umboes civated Saunas ligament conspicuous. 
ventrali equaliter convexo ; latere antico breviusculo, Han ey, in Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, Tellina, 
margine dorsali declivi, termino obtuse cuneato, um- ni. ae 
bonibus elevatis acuminatis, ligamento conspicuo. Hab. 
THE conspicuous TELLINA. Shell ovate-subtrigonal, Differing from Zed/ina Timorensis in being more elevated, 
compressed, flattened, elevated, white, thin, smooth, 
with the dorsal edges more sloped. 
