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are a few distant slightly elevated transverse ridges or striae, 

 and the longitudinal stnee are very fine ; the hinge has a bifid 

 tooth in one valve, and remote lateral teeth. 



polygona. 9. Shell ovate, sub-ventricose, longi- 

 tudinally as well as transversely striated, and 

 longitudinally sinuous at the anterior end. 



Tellina polygona. Chemnitz, vi. p. 91. t. 9. f. 77. Ulysses 



Travels, p. 478. Museum Leskennum, p. 156. 

 Tellina multangula. Gmelin, p. 3230. Wood's Conch, p. 



150. 

 Tellina, No. 3. Schroeter Eiril. iii. p. 3. 



Inhabits the coasts of Tranquebar. Chemnitz. Naples. 

 Ulysses. 



Shell an inch and a half long, and near two inches and a half 

 broad, of an uniform whitish ash colour, thickly striated trans- 

 versely, and crossed longitudinally with finer stria?, which make 

 it rough to the touch ; the hinge is said to have a single primary 

 cleft tooth in one valve, and two in the other. Tellina po- 

 lygona of Gmelin, is T. Guinaica of Chemnitz. 



lacunosa. JO. Shell ovate, thin, ventricose, and 

 longitudinally sinuous near the middle ; 

 hinge without lateral, but with two primary 

 teeth. 



Tellina lacunosa. Chemnitz, vi. p. 92. t. 9- f- 78. 

 Tellina papyracea. Gmelin, p. 3231. Wood's Conch, p. 



150. 

 Tellina, No. 4. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 2. 

 Enc. Method, t. 290. f. 14. 



Inhabits the coast of Guinea. Chemnitz. 



Shell about an inch and a quarter long, and an inch and three 

 quarters broad ; brittle, thin, white, rounded at one end, and 

 somewhat truncated and wrinkled at the other ; between the 

 middle and the anterior end are two sub-angulated broad 

 longitudinal plaits or flexures. Gmelin has very unnecessa- 

 rily changed the name of lacunosa to papyracea. 



gibbosa. 11. Shell sub-triangular, ventricose, finely 

 striated transversely and sinuous towards 

 both ends ; hinge with strong lateral teeth. 



Tellina gibbosa. Gmelin, p. 3231. Wood's Conch, p. 151. 



Tellina, No. 62. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 18. 



Gaulter, t. 77. f. Q. 



