TELLINA. 79 



Tellina variabilis. Pennant, iv. p. 87. t. 47. f. 27. 

 Tellina depressa. Pulteneys Dorset Cat. p. 29- Donovan, 



Brit. Shells, ii. t. 41. 

 Tellina Gari. Born. Mns. p. 31. t. 2. f. 6 and 7. 

 Solen vespertinus. Gmelin, p. 3228. Montagu Test. p. 



54. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans. \m. p. 47. Dorset 



Cat. p. 29. t. 5. f. 1. WWs CowcA. p. 135. t. 33. f. 



2 and 3. 

 Solen, No. 7. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 636. 

 Solen. £nc. Method, t. 228. f. 2. 

 Zwter Cowc^. t. 417. f. 261. Jrgenville, t. 22. f. I. 



Chemnitz, vi. t. 7. f. 59 and 60. 

 Inhabits the European Ocean. Liiinaus. Mediterranean, and 

 West Indian Seas. Chemnitz. Coast of Britain. Pennant, 

 fyc. 

 Shell an inch or an inch and a quarter long, and about twice 

 as broad ; moderately thick, faintly striated concentrically, 

 and slightly truncated at one end ; the colour varies, from 

 pale straw to flesh colour, purplish or white, and is always 

 more or less marked with red rays diverging from the hinge ; 

 the margin on the inside is also frequently striped with red ; 

 there are two erect teeth in one valve, and one in the other, 

 with a strong projecting lamina attached to each, but no 

 lateral teeth. It appears by his MSS. in Sir Jos. Banks's 

 Library, that Dr. Solander considered this to be the Lin- 

 nsean Tellina albida, and it answers to the description in 

 the Systema Naturae ; the valves however do not shut close, 

 especially at one end, but this is also the case with some 

 other Tellens. Born has erroneously figured this shell for the 

 Linnaean T. Gari, and considered Solen sanguinolentus to 

 be the T. albida of Linnseus. 



triangularis. 17. Shell sub-ovate, rounded at 

 one end, and transversely wrinkled, except at 

 the apex, which is smooth. 



Tellina triangularis. Chemnitz, vi. p. 96. t. 10. f. 85. 

 Tellina trilatera. Gmelin, p. 3234. Wood's Conch, p. 162, 

 Tellina, No. 5. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 3. 



Inhabits 



Chemnitz describes this shell to be one inch and seven lines 

 long, and two inches and two lines broad, white and smooth 

 about the hinge, but yellowish, and concentrically wrinkled 

 towards the margin ; hinge with a solitary primary and lateral 

 tooth. T. triangularis of Gmelin, is a very doubtful species, 

 quite undeserving of notice. 



