CONCHYLIA— D/TflTFiR^. 27. 104 



on each side the hinge, and which is visible in a fainter degree on 

 the outside : the other is whitish, cream-color, or violet, without 

 tke red spots, but covered more or less with purple arrow-shaped 

 marks usually disposed in rays. We have also specimens without 

 the spots, but marked with fawn-colored rays. 



Linne has properly remarked, that in this species the flexure 

 on the anterior side is scarcely distinguishable : there is, 

 however, a slight constriction or indenture of the margin at 

 that end. 



Tellina tesid ovato-oblongd, latere aniico subrostraio, valvd depressa. 

 alterd bidentatd cum laterali, allerd unidentaid cum late- 

 ralibus. 

 Shell oval-oblong, with the anterior side much produced and 

 pointed, in one valve two teeth and a single lateral one, in the 

 other a single tooth and two lateral ones. 

 Tab. nost. 8, h'g. 6. 

 Tellma depressa. Gmelin, Syst. p. 3238. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. p. 186. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 179. 

 Donovan, British Shells, v. tab. 163. 

 Linn. Trans, viii p. 51. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 30, tab. 6, fig. 2. 

 Wood, Conch, p. 171, tab. 45, fig. 3, 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 91. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 171. 

 Tellina squalida. Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 56, 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 149. 

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