118 CONCHY Ll\~DITHYR A. 29. 



Tab. nost.l, fig. 15. 

 Tellina carnaria. Juiiin. Syst. Nat. p. 1119. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3240. 



Turton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 195. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 130, tab. ]3, fig. 126. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 183. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 73, 



Donovan. British Siiells, ii. tab. 47. 



Linn. Irans. viii. p. 57. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 151. 



Dorset Catal. p. 31, tab. 5, fig. 6. 



Wood, Conch, p. 189, tab. 40, fig. 4, 5. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 100. 



Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 177. 

 Cardium carneosum. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 181. 

 Pectunculus tenuis. JLister, Conch, tab. 339, fig. 176. 

 Mus. nost. Supposed to be from the Western coasts. 



Shell about half an inch long, and a little more in breadth, 

 more or less deeply tinged with fine rose-color, with often an 

 oblong rosy spot on each side the hinge, of a roundish-oval form 

 and rather flat, marked in the middle with oblique longitudinal 

 strise, which at the shorter end are curved and flexuous, and at 

 the produced end with straight striae which meet the oblique ones 

 and form angles : beaks near one end : hinge with two teeth in 

 each valve, one of them cloven 



A comparison of this shell with the Tellina bimaculata will 

 illustrate the relative positions of the cartilage. In tlie Strigilla 

 it is placed on the longer side, in the Tellina on the shorter j a 



