126 COl^CUYLIA—niTHYRA. 31. 



Shell three quarters of an inch long, and nearly an inch and 

 a half broad, smooth and glossy, yellowish or purplish, generally 

 variegated with paler spots and irregular markings, but always 

 distinguished by a white and rather oblique broad longitudinal 

 fillet from the hinge on the shorter side, and which widens asit 

 approaches the margin; rounded at the lengthened side, and 

 obliquely pointed at the other: beaks nearer the more pointed 

 end; inside whitish or purple: hinge with two teeth in each 

 valve, one of them cloven ; and a single lateral tooth in both 

 valves. 



piebeia. DoNAx testd ovato-oblongd Icevi, vittis duabus futvis longitu- 

 dinalibvs, dente latetudi in tUrdque valvd. 

 Shell oval-oblong smooth, with two longitudinal fulvous bands, 



a single lateral tooth in each valve. 

 Donax piebeia. Montagu, p. 107, tab. 5, fig. 2, 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 76. 

 Tnrtcn, British Fauna, p, 156. 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 199. 

 Dorset Catal. p. 38, tab. 5, fig. 13. 

 Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 102. 

 Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 42. 

 Tellina parva. Lister, Conch tab. 389, fig. 228. 

 Mus. nost. From the beach at Teignmouth. 



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

 broad, thick and strong, smooth, of a dull yellowish horn-color, 

 with the teeth large and strong, and a single lateral one in each 

 valve. 



