TELLINA.—Ptate LVII. 
Species 338. (Fig. a, 6, Mus. Cuming, in Mus. Brit.) 
TELLINA DISSIMILIS. 
THE 
DESHAYES. 
Hab. 
Tel. testa elongatd, solidd, con- 
centricé sulcatd, ante angulum posticum in valvuld 
dextra squamis oblique dispositis rugatd, subrosed, 
radiis remotis, pallidis ornatd, postice versus 
laterem dextrum avenatd ; latere postico angusto, 
truncato, validé fleauoso, infra acuminato ; margine 
ventrali ante angulum, posticum subcontracto, medio 
recti ; latere antero producto, termino rotundo. 
DISSIMILAR TELLINA. Shell elongated, solid, con - 
centrically grooved, before the posterior angle in 
the right valve roughened with obliquely disposed 
scales, rather pink, ornamented with remote pale 
rays, posteriorly curved towards the right side, 
posterior side narrow, truncated, strongly flexuous, 
acuminated below; ventral margin in front of the 
angle rather contracted, straight in the middle ; 
anterior side produced, end rounded. 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1854, p. 370. 
(?) 

Much more elongated than Tellina vastellum, with 
very prominent obliquely arranged scales in front of 
the posterior angle on the right valve. 

TELLINA PARVA. 
THE 
Species 359. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Brit.) 
Tel. testa parva, rotundato subovata, 
crassa, concentrice regulariter sulcata inflata ; ob- 
scure fulvd, fasciis pallidis roseis utrinque radiata, 
intus infra umbones flavida, prope margmem vi- 
vide radiata ; latere postico angustior’ ; margine 
cardinali tenui, dentibus cardinalibus minutis, 
lateralibus approwimatis. 
sMALL TeLLina. Shell small, rounded, subovate, 
thick, concentrically regularly grooved, inflated ; 
obscurely fulvous, rayed on both sides with pale 
rosy bands, within, yellow under the umboes, 
vividly rayed near the margin; posterior side the 
narrower; cardinal margin thin; cardinal teeth 
small, lateral approximate. 
SowErpy. 
Hab. 

(@) 
This pretty little shell is distinguished from others 
rather similar, like Tellina Balanitina by its neat con- 
centric grooves. 

