295 



with the tip rounded, the dorsal edge nearly straight, moderately 

 sloping, and very long; hgament sunken; lunbonal ridge and 



flexure obsolete ; lateral tooth approximate. ^ 



Hab. ? Mus. Britannicum. 



140. Tellina planissima (pi. lix. f. 1 24. and pi. Ixii. f.l97.) 

 Anto7i, Verzn. Conch, p. 4 ; Ab. iind Bes. Conch, part 5. t. 5. f. 2; 

 Tellinides rosea. Sow. Gen. Shells, f. 1 ; Reeve, Conch. Syst. t.56. 

 f. 1. 



T. testa ovata, tenuiuscula, insequivalvi, inaequilaterali, com- 

 pressa, extus intusque rosea, concentrice substriata ; margine ven- 

 trali convexiusculo ; dorsali utrinque declivi, antice convexo, pos- 

 tice subrecto; latere antico rotuudato; postico longiore, rotun- 

 dato-cuneiformi ; ligamento prominente; flexura subobsoleta; 

 costella interna in valvula complanata postice radiante; dente 

 laterali parvo, approximato. 



Yar. Candida. 



Ovate, rather thin, inequivalve, inequilateral, compressed, rose- 

 coloured both mthin and without, concentrically substriated ; ven- 

 tral margin moderately convex, the flexure not quite obsolete; 

 dorsal edges sloping, the anterior convex, the posterior nearly 

 straight; anterior extremity roimded; posterior side the longer 

 and of a rounded wedge-shape ; ligament prominent ; an internal 

 rib radiating posteriorward in thq flattened valve; lateral tooth 

 smaU, approximate. 



Var. Quite wliite. 



Moluccas. 



The OjMilhia of Chemnitz is closely allied to, if not identical 

 with, the white variety of this shell. 



141. Tellina (Tellinides) pitrpurascens (pi. Ixii. f. 194.) - ^^fyz>-tlu-fuy jdiuX. 

 Broderip and Sowerbij, Zool. Jom-. vol. iv. p. 363 ; Hani. Des. Cat. Th^.C^, / ^S^ 



p. 74. sup. t. 9. f. 18 ; Zool. Beechey's Voy. t. 42. f. 2. >'<-^ j^u--)^^^ a.i^ ^i^y^d<^ i > 7 



T. testa oblongo-ovah, tenui, compressa, nitidiuscula, subsequi- 

 laterah, roseo-purpurascente, pellucida, striis radiantibus et con- 

 centricis confertissime decussata; margine ventrali convexiusculo; 

 dorsali utrinque paulidum decliva, antice convexiusculo, postice 

 subrecto; latere antico minime longiore, rotmidato; extremitate 

 postica subangulata, subemarginata ; ligamento prominente ; flex- 

 ura omnino obsoleta ; dente laterali approximato. 



Oblong-oval, tliin, compressed, rather glossy, nearly equilateral, 

 purplish-rose coloured, pellucid, decussated by most crowded radi- 

 ating and concentric strise; ventral margin morlerately convex; 

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