TELLINA. 87 



Inhabits the European Ocean. Linn&us. 



Linnaeus has referred to the same figure of Lister's (Anim. 

 Ang. App. t. 1 . f. 8.) both for T. incarnata and T. trifas- 

 ciata, but it does not accord with the specific character of 

 either, and has been properly quoted by Dr. Maton and 

 Mr. Racket for T. Ferroensis. Pennant, without any refer- 

 ence to Lister, considered this to be an English shell, which 

 he describes to, be ' very brittle, and radiated like T. Ferro- 

 ensis, but lesser ;' and Dr. Solander has quoted T. trifasciata 

 both of Linnasus and Pennant for a Donax, to which he 

 gave the name of fasciata. The shell figured by Chemnitz 

 for T. trifasciata, is eleven lines long and thirteen broad, 

 whitish, finely striated transversely, and marked with three 

 red rays, which become broader towards the margin ; the 

 inside is white, and obsoletely rayed with red. Chemnitz, 

 f. 115 and II 6, which Gmelin has quoted as a Variety, is 

 probably a distinct species. 



coccinea. 34. Shell oval, pellucid, scarlet, finely 

 striated transversely, and has a callosity near 

 the hinge. 



Tellina coccinea, Chemnitz, vi. p. 118. t. 12. f. 109- 



Gmelin, p. 3236. Wood's Conch, p. 168. 

 Tellina, No. 19. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 8. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Chemnitz. 



Shell about three quarters of an inch long, and an inch and a 

 quarter broad, of a uniform scarlet, without any coloured 

 markings, and the inside, from the transparency of the shell, 

 appears nearly of the same colour ; it is said to have a cal- 

 losity near the hinge like what is met with among the Solens. 



incarnata. 35. Shell ovate, compressed, slightly 

 produced on the anterior side, and somewhat 

 mucronated at the apex. 



Tellina incarnata. Linnceus Syst, Nat. p. 1118. Born. 



Mus. p. 36. t. 2. f. 13.? 

 Gualter, t. 88. f. M. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, and coasts of Sweden. Linnceus. 



Linnasus describes this species to be about an inch broad, and 

 very like T. planata, but of a scarlet colour with one or two 

 paler rays, and the apex pointed ; besides a reference to 

 Gualter, t. 88. f. M, he has given another to Lister's figure 

 of T. Ferroensis, and Dr. Solander, as well as Pennant, con- 

 sidered this to be the shell described by Linnaeus ; Chem- 



