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but somewhat incurved, its slope moderate : flexure conspicuous ; 

 lateral teeth strong and nearly equidistant. 

 Guadaloupe. 



6. Tellina verrucosa (pi. Ixviii. f. 77.) Hanley, Zool. Proc. 

 1844. 



T. testa oblongo-elongata, solida, compressa ; aut flavida rubro- 

 purpureo radiata, aut pallide rosea radus subalbidis angustis zo- 

 uisque saturatioribus omata ; valvula altera undique (natibus ex- 

 cipiendis) verrucosa; altera medio concentrice sulcata, lateribus 

 soliim verrucosa ; verrucis ellipticis aut semilunatis, in seriebus vix 

 interruptis, concentrice ordinatis ; margine ventrali antice subarcu- 

 ato, postice sursmn acclinato ; dorsali antice convexiusculo et vix 

 subdecKvi, postice subrecto, subdeclivi ; latere antico longiore, ro- 

 tundato ; extremitate postica attenuata, subrostata, obhque subbi- 

 augulata; ligamento hand prominente; flexura ventrali costaque 

 umbonali conspicuis ; dentibus lateraJibus magnis, sequidistantibus. 



Elongated-oblong, depressed, solid, yellovdsh with reddish crim- 

 son rays or pale pink with deeper concentric bands and paler nar- 

 row rays ; surface roughened in one valve by concentrically arran- 

 ged and frequently comiected compressed wart-like tubercles, wliich 

 on the disc of the other valve are replaced by concentric elevated 

 sulci; anterior side the longer, rounded; ventral edge arcuated 

 anteriorly and curving upwards to the angulated posterior extre- 

 mity so as to render it subrostrated and attenuated ; slopes gentle, 

 ligament not prominent ; lateral teeth large. 



Corrigidor, Bay of Manilla. 



7. Tellina rastellum (pi. kiv. f. 231. and pi. Ixv. f. 242) 

 Hanley, Zool. Proc. (April) 1844 ; Hani. Des. Cat. sup. t. xiv. f. 14. 

 T. Pliilippii, Anton Ab. und Bes Conch, part v. t. 5. 



T. testa elongata, sohda, convexiuscula, sequilaterali, flavida, pallide 

 roseo radiata ; antice sulcata, postice squamosa, squamis erectis, la- 

 niellosis, in iisdem seriebus cum sulcis concentricis, ordinatis ; mar- 

 gine ventrali vix convexiusculo ; dorsah utrinque paululum declivi, 

 antice vix convexiusculo, postice recto ant subincurvato ; latere 

 postico attenuate, subrostrato, ad extremitatem oblique biangulato ; 

 extremitate antica rotundata ; ligamento costaque umbonali, con- 

 spicuis ; superficie interna albida, umbones versus aurantio utrinque 

 fucata ; dentibus lateraHbus vahdis, subaequidistantibus. 



Elongated, solid, moderately convex, equilateral, yellowish with 

 pale crimson rays, the concentric sulci posteriorly so interrupted as 

 to form rows of thin tooth-like scales, and so arranged that the 



