124 CONCHYLIA— I>/Tl/yjK^. 31. 



Tellina subfusca. Ltister, Conch, tab. 376, fig. 217. 

 Mus. nosl. On most sandy shores. 



Shell half an inch long, and more than an inch broad, rather 

 truncate at one end, produced and rounded at the other where it 

 gapes a little, covered with a brown or olive skin, with fine longi- 

 tudinal striae which are not punctured in the interstices, and a 

 little contracted at the margin near the elongated end, of a yel- 

 lowish-white color under the epidermis, with often one or two 

 whitish longitudinal rays; inside rich purple: hinge with two 

 teeth in each valve, and a single lateral one. 



denticuiata. DoNAX testd cuiieatd, striis longitudinalihus punctulatis, wed 

 anticd utrinque trausversim rugoso-striatd. 

 Shell wedge-shaped, with longitudinal punctured striee, and the 



anterior slope rough with transverse striae on both sides. 

 Donax denticuiata. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1127. 



Gmelin, Syst. p. 3263. 



2urton, Linn. Syst. iv. p. 215. 



Pennant, iv. p. p. 199, tab. 58, fig. 2. 



Chemnitz, vi. p. 262, tab. 26, fig. 256, 257. 



Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 104. 



Linn. Trans, viii. p. 76. 



Turton, British Fauna, p. 156. 



Dorset Catal. p. 34, tab. 5, fig. 12. 



Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 151. 



Tnrton, Conch. Diet. p. 41, fig. 19. 

 Donax crenulata. Donovan, British Shells, i. tab. 24. 

 Cuneus truncatus. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 205. 



