TELLINA.—P ate LY. 
Species 327. (Fig. a, 6, Mus. Cuming, in Mus. Brit.) 
Tel. testd oblonga, com- 
pressd, solidd, levigatd, prope umbones sanguined, 
prope margines fulvd ; ints margine cardinali 
TELLINA SANGUINOLENTA. 
medioque rosea, margine ventral et impressionibus | 
muscularibus flavido-aurantid ; latero  postico 
brevitusculo, late truncato ; latere antico producto ; 
margine ventrali rectiisculo ; dentibus cardinalibus 
parvis, lateralibus nullis. 
THE BLEEDING TELLINA. 
Shell oblong, compressed, 
solid, smooth, blood-coloured near the umboes, 
buff near the margins, within the hinge margin 
and centre pink, near the ventral margin and 
on the muscular impressions yellowish-orange ; 
posterior side rather short, widely truncated; 
anterior side produced; ventral margin rather 
straight; cardinal teeth small; lateral, none. 
Desuayres. Proe. Zool, Soc., 1854, p. 359. 
Hab. (?) 
An oblong, rather flat, truncated Psammobia- 
formed shell. 


Species 328. 
Tel. testa oblongo-subtri- 
gonad compressa, complanata, albo-lutescenti ; leevi- 
gata, sub lente tenwissime striata, epidermide tenu- 
issimo griscescenti indutd ; latere postico acute 
angulato, margine dorsali declivi, termino trun- 
cato, area post-angulari compress, wmbonibus 
complanatis, acutis, subcentralibus ; dentibus car- 
dinalibus minutis, lateralibus nullis ; ligamento 
parvo. 
THE VERY COMPRESSED TeLLInaA. Shell oblong sub- 
trigonal, compressed, flattened, dull white, smooth, 
very finely striated under the lens; covered with a 
very thin greyish epidermis; posterior side sharply 
angular; dorsal margin sloped, end truncated ; 
postangular area flat; umbones flattened, acute, 
subcentral; cardinal teeth minute, lateral none; 
ligament small. 
Hab, Japan. 
This 
group. 
TELLINA CoMPRESSISSIMA. 
is one of the flattest of the Tellinides 

