TELLINA. 8$ 



Tellina Madagascariensis. Gmelin, p» 3237. Wood's Conch. 



p. 169. t. 39- f. 2 and 3. 

 Tellina eburnea. Solanders MSS. Portland Cat. p. 104, 



lot 2295. 

 Tellina, No. 33. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 12. 

 Lister Conch, t. 386. f. 233. 



Inhabits the coasts of Madagascar. Lister. Coromandel. So- 

 lander. 



Shell in length about two inches and a quarter, and the breadth 

 three inches and three quarters 5 thick, compressed, of a flesh 

 colour, and the apex, margin, and inside are rosy; the pos- 

 terior end is rounded, the other produced, and in one 

 valve has an angulated ridge extending from the hinge to the 

 margin, and in the opposite valve a corresponding longitudi- 

 nal depression ; the hinge has a single primary tooth in each 

 valve, of which one is bifid, and there is an approximated 

 lateral tooth in one valve, but none in the other. Lister says 

 that full-grown shells are thick and ' ponderous, but the lesser 

 are thin and light, and prettily fasciated, at least some of 

 them.' T. operculata, which it most resembles, is of a 

 darker colour, more oblong, and has the left valve much flat- 

 ter. 



radiata. 26. Shell oblong, polished, somewhat 

 beaked and inflected at the anterior end, and 

 minutely striated longitudinally. 



Tellina radiata. Linnaus St/st. Nat. p. 1117. Born. Mus* 



p. 34. Chemnitz, vi. p. 109- t. 11. f. 100 and 102. 



Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 650. Gmelin, p. 3232. Lamarck 



Si/st. des Anim. p. 124. Wood's Conch, p. 158. t. 38. 



f. 2 and 3. Brooks's Introd. p. 161. t. 2. f. 17. 

 Lister Conch, t. 393. f. 240. Gualter, t. 89. f. I. Argen- 



ville, t. 22. f. A. Klein. Ost. t. 11. f. 60. Knorr, i. 



t. 19- f. 1. and iv. t. 2. f. 4. Regenfuss, i. t. 8. f. 22. 



Favanne, t. 49. f. A. Enc. Meth. t. 289. f. 2. 

 Inhabits the European Ocean. Liruiaus. Jamaica. Lister. 

 Bahamas, and Ascension Island. Solander. West Indies. 

 Humphreys. 

 Shell about an inch or an inch and a half long, and more than 

 twice as broad, highly polished, and the hinge is not central, 

 but placed nearer the anteriorend, which is somen hat beaked 

 and inflected ; the colour is sometimes wholly white, or more 

 commonly white with red rays, or yellowish transverse bands; 

 the hinge has two teeth in one valve, with one in the other, 

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