CONCHT LI A— D/T/lF/?/f. 27. lOl 



t&e hinge, with often pale and ir.re<;ular longitudinal rays, andia 

 few minute longitudinal striaj wliic-h ar? usually visible at the 

 anterior side only: beaks nearly central. 



It is a much stronger and more opake shell tlian the Tellina 

 lineata, and is distinguished in having a single lateral tooth in 

 each of the valves* 



TEI.J.ISA testa oisatd, antue fli'xnoso-acuminafu, valcd alterd Fabuia. 



obliqu ' striata, alterd leevi. 

 Shell oval, flexuous and pointed at the anterior side, with one of 



tiie valves obliquely striate and the other smooth. 

 Tellina Fabuia. Giiulin, Syst. p. 3239. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p- 194. 



Donovan, British Shells, iii. lab 97. 



Montagu, Tiist Brit. p. 6L 



J'eniiaiit, Brit. Zool. iv. p^ 179. 



JLiiin. T'rans. viii. p. 52. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. \aOi 



Dorset Catai. p. 30, tab. 12, lig. 3 and 3 a. 



Wood, Conch; p. 156, tab. 4-5, tig. 4. 



Dillwijn. I)escrij)t. Catal. p. 91. 



Turton, Co\\A\ Diet. p. 170. 

 Mus^. nasi. On most sandy coasts. 



Shell half an inch long and three quarters of an inch broad, 

 thin, transparent, glossy wliiie rellecting metallic colors, tapering 

 to a point and Hexuous at one end : the riglit valve smooth, or 

 only marked with faint irregular transverse striae; the left with 

 fine regular oblique longitudinal lines : in the smooth valve is a 



