CONCHYLIA— l>iriJ'F/?^. 26. 93 



Dorset Catal. p. 29, tab. 5, fig. I. 



Wood, Coiicl-i. p. 135, tab. 82, fig. 2, 3. 



Turlon, Couch. Diet. p. 163. 

 Telliiia depressa. Donovan, British Shells, ii. tab. 41. 

 Tellina albida. Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 78. 

 Lux vespertiua. Chemnitx, vi. p. 72, tab. 7, fig. 59, 60. 

 Cliama lutesceus. Usier, Couch, tab. 417, fig. 261. 

 Mus.nosf. Western coasts, Dubliu bay, Guerusea. 



Shell groiviug to an inch and a half loiig,[aud nearly three inches 

 in breadth, opake, covered when fresh with a dark brown skin, 

 pale straw-color with purplish longitudinal rays which are usually 

 visible on the inside, with transve<iBe striae which grow thicker 

 towards the anterior end, and sometimes crossed with a few very 

 minute and obscure longitudinal ones: in one valve are two teeth, 

 and the same in the other, but one of them is tliin laminar and 

 oblique, and not always visible except in fresh specimens. 



PsAMMOBiA lestd ovato-oblovga, latere antico suhangulato, striis JtHoiaia. 



transrersis longitiidmaliliusqae sulmndatis. 

 Shell oval-oblong, a little angular at the anterior side, with trans- 

 verse striae and undulate longitudinal ones. 

 Venus dellorata. Linn. Sysf. Nat. p. 1133. 



Gtneiin, Syst. p. 3274. 



Ivrton, I^inn. Syst. iv. p. 224. 



fcnnant, iv. p. 207, tab. 60, lower fig. 



Monlayn, p. 123, tab. 3, fig. 4. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 85. 



Tm'ton, British Fauna, p. 158. 



