695 
purple; white, pale reddish, yellowish or purple, and 
frequently rayed with the latter colour: obsoletely 
truncated anteriorly. 13...2. 8. Coast, rare. 
S. VEsPERTINA. F’. p. 461.—Soxuen V. Gmel. 3228, 
—Mont. p. 54 —Lin. T. 8. p. 47.—Lor. Cat. p. 29. 
t.5. f. 1.— Wood. G. C. p.135. t. 32. f. 2, 3.—Turt. 
C. D. p. 163.—Ch. f. 59, 60.—Psamnopia V. Lam. 
3.—Turt. B p. 92. t. 6. f. 10. (young) —TELLINA 
Drpressa. Don. ¢. 41.—T. Arsirpa. D. p. 78.— 
Oblong, noderately thick, subequilateral, nearly smooth, 
anteriorly slightly angulated, opaque, whitish or pale 
straw-colour, rayed witi redcish purple; one of the 
teeth in one valve, thin laminar and oblique. 14...232. 
S. Coasts. 
Genus.—TELLINA 
Transverse or orbicular, both valves generally flattened, 
the anterior side angular and inflexed on the mar- 
gin with a ficeuous irregular ridge ; with one or 
two cardinal teeth in the same valve and sometimes 
two lateral teeth, frequently remote. 
* Oval, with two teeth in one valve. 
T. Linzata. Turt. B. p. 99.6.7. fi L—F. p. 435. 
