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doml edge, (which is slightly incurved near the boaks) is mo o^ 

 rately sloping, when but little sloping obtuse; posterior extiennt^j 

 v'rfoSuseh'biangidate^^ or attenuated and obtuse ; beaks acute 

 prmmnentaiul incurved; fold tolerably distinct; hgament small 

 narrow and sunken ; teeth obsolete. ,r. ■ \ 



Ceylon and Isle of Negros, Pliilippmes ; (Cuming) 

 Tlus is not the T. awjulata of Lmmeus, which I believe to be 

 a Psammohia. 



201. Tellina gtjbernaculum (pi. Ixii. f. 1 SG.) Jlauh',/, Zool. 

 Proc. 1844. 



T te^ta subovata, subin^quivalvi, tenui, compressiuscula, lfe^■l, 

 extusintusnuealbida,valdein8equilaterali; margine ventrah con- 

 TexiuscX antice sur;um acclmato ; dorsali antice n^agis mmusve 

 convexo et declivi, posticc recto bren (>t subito declivi ; extremitate 

 Xrantici lonioris rotundato-attenuatu ; ^ extremitate postica 

 br^Lsi^k truncato-^ iiexura costaque un^boiiah obso- 



letis • h"-amento infosso ; dentibus parvis. , . . 



V;r Testa magiselongata; latere postico brevissmio; margine 

 dorsali postice maxime declivi, antice subrecto. 



sXvate, rather ineqvdvalve, thin, somewhat compressed, smooth 

 wlS ve ; inequilateral ; ventral edge moderately convex, sloping 

 uprrdsh? front; dorsal more or less coiwex and sloping aiite- 

 Xly trshort straight and abruptly declinmg postenoriy ; an e- 

 rior'side produced, its extremity attenuated and ^^^^d ; po.^e- 

 rior side extremely short and truncato-cuneiform ; fold and Hexnre 

 nl-isnlete- ligament sunken; teeth small. , , , ^ i i 



v!^ More elongated; liinder side extremely short ; dors-aledge 

 nearly "straight in front, most abruptly slopmg belund. 

 Eeal Lejos, Central America (Cuming). 



202. Tellina TEUKCATA. (pi. Lxii. f. 198.) Jonas, Ab. und 

 Bes. Conch, part 3. t. 5. f. 2. 



T testa ovali-subtrigona, solidiuscuia, subinPcquividNi, subven- 

 trico'i ub-m^^^^^^ extus intusque alba, subla3^^gata, valde m^- 

 nSerar margin ventrali subrecto ; dorsah antice convexiuscdo 

 SS^aut subdeclixa, postice recto subelongato et yalde dechu ; 

 ktere antico producto, ad extremitatem rotLmdato-attenua o; la- 

 ^e pc^S^ sicuneifomi, ad extremitatem angus^^3 c suWgu- 

 hto tlexm-a subobsoleta; ligamento magiio, mto.so; duitibus 



^^ZS:Sngia. tolerably strong, ^1^^;% j^equivalv. i^^ 

 ventricose, rather dull wlnte, nearly smooth, very mequilateral , 



