88 CONCHYLIA— />IT//F/i/l. 26. 



transversely, and longitudinally in a minute manner ; color vary- 

 ing from pale yellow to deep purple, and marked with crimson 

 blotches or stripes: beaks nearly central^ a little prominent, 

 not inclining to either side ; inside colored like the outside 

 and generally more vivid : in one valve a slightly cloven 

 tooth closing between two in the other, one of whicli is slightly 

 cloven. 



Of this nondescript and most beautiful shell we have taken by 

 the dredge four line specimens, three of which were living ones. 



frajriijs. PsAMMOBiA testd ohovatd tmnidd, antive Jiexuosd suhrostratd, 

 s/riis transiiersis lamellatis longittidinalibusque minimis. 

 Shell oboval tumid, tlexuous and produced at the anterior end, 

 witli transverse laminar striae and minute longitudinal ones. 



Tab. nost. 7, tig. Hand 12. 

 Tellina fragilis. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1117. 



Gmdin, Syst. p. ?230. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 185. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 95, tab. 9, fig. 84. 



Wood, Conch, p. 148. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 78. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 166, fig. J 8. 

 Tellina jugosa. Brown, Wern. Soc. ii. p. 506, tab. 24, fig. 2. 

 Tellina lata. Lister, Conch, tab. 390, fig. 229. 



M%ts. nost. Dublin, Valentia, and Bantry bays. 



Shell an incii or more long, and an inch and a half wide, thin, 

 brittle, white or brownish, very tumid at the larger end, and 



