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with delicate concentric and obsolete radiating striae, the posterior 

 concentric more distant raised and distinct near the beaks ; ven- 

 tral edge scarcely arcuated, ascending posteriorly; anterior side 

 rounded, its dorsal slope strong; posterior side wedge-shaped, 

 hgamental edge nearly straight, often slightly incurved, moderately 

 sloping, point acuminated ; within rosy, pohshed, scars deeply im- 

 pressed ; liinge margin broad and very strong ; lateral teeth sub- 

 equidistant, rather small, by age obsolete. 

 Indian Ocean (?). 



31. Tellina iNjEQUISTRIATA (pl.lvii. f.58. andpl.lviii. f.80.) 

 Donovan, Brit. Shells, (1802), vol. 4. 1. 123; T. sanguinea. Wood, 

 Gen. Conch, p. 159. t. 44. f. 2 ; Hani. Desc. Cat. p. 67. t. 4. f. 27. 



T. testa oblongo-subtrigona, soHchuscula, subsequilaterali, nitida, 

 compressiuscula, pallide rubro-sanguinea, concentrice confertim et 

 exiHssime striata; striis posticis altera in valvula remotis, rudi- 

 oribus; margine ventrah subrecto; dorsaH antice convexiusculo 

 et subdeclivi, postice decKvi et prope nates retuso ; latere antico 

 paulo longiore, ad extremitatem rotundato ; postico truncato-cunei- 

 formi ; colore interno saturatiore ; hgamento prominulo ; flexura 

 costaque imibonali obsoletis; dentibus laterahbus magnis, antico 

 approximato, postico baud remote. 



Var. a, striis posticis in utraque valvula remotis, rudioribus. 

 Var. h, testa albida, pallide am'antio ad nates utrinque radiata. 



Oblong, very slightly triangular, rather soHd, somewhat com- 

 pressed ; glossy, subequilateral, of a pale blood red, wdth fine and 

 crowded concentric striae, wdiich however in one of the valves are 

 posteriorly replaced by coarser and more distant ones ; ventral edge 

 nearly straight ; anterior side rather the longer, its end rounded, 

 its dorsal slope moderate and tolerably convex ; posterior end trun- 

 cated-cuneiform, its dorsal slope strong, nearly straight, or some- 

 what concave near its acute beaks ; hgament but shghtly projecting ; 

 fold and flexure obsolete; internal colom's deeper; lateral teeth 

 large, the posterior not very distant, the anterior subapproximate. 



Yar. a, the posterior strise distant in both valves. Var. h, white, 

 with a short pale orange ray on either side of the beaks. 



In sculpture resembhng Nitida. 



Bay of Guayaquil; (Cuming). 



32. Tellina ppjnceps (pi. Ixiii. f. 206.) Banley, Zool. Proc. 

 1844. 



T. testa oblongo-elhptica, sequilaterah, soKda, compressa, niti- 

 diuscula, intus extusque roseo-purpurascente, concentrice sulcata; 

 striis exilibus, profundis, radiantibus, sulcos confertos, utrinque (et 



