90 TELLINA. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnezus. Coasts of Britain. 

 Pulteney, fyc. 



Shell hardly half an inch long, and nearly twice as broad ; thin, 

 semi-pellucid, faintly striated concentrically, and of a yel- 

 lowish colour prettily radiated with red in the in as well as 

 the outside ; the hinge is placed about twice as far from the 

 posterior as from the anterior end, and the latter is rather 

 abruptly sloped, so as to give some appearance of a Donax ; 

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



angusta. 42. Shell ovate-oblong, flattish, rounded 

 at one end, and pointed at the other ; hinge 

 nearly central. 



Tellina angusta. Gmelin, p. 3236. Wood's Conch, p. 169. 

 Tellina Laskeyi. Montagu Supp. p. 28. t. 28. f, 3. Wood's 



Conch, p. 179- 

 Tellina Donacina. Var. Solanders MSS. 

 Tellina, No. 30. Schroeter Einl. Hi. p. U. 

 Lister Conch, t. 383. f. 226. 



Inhabits the Frith of Forth. Mr. Laskey. 



Shell about half an inch long, and nearly twice as broad, with 

 one end rounded, and the other obtusely pointed like Donax 

 trunculus ; the only difference between T. angusta and T. 

 Laskeyi appears to be, that the former is purplish white, co- 

 vered with a greenish yellow epidermis when recent, and the 

 other red and rayed, but the rays in the figure are very in- 

 distinct ; it appears from Dr. Solander's MSS. that he found 

 a shell like Lister's, and considered it to be a Variety of T. 

 Donacina. 



truncata. 43. Shell oval, compressed, and slightly 

 striated ; anterior end truncated, and the su- 

 ture distinct. 



Tellina truncata. Linnceus Si/st. Nat. p. 1118. Gmelin, 

 p. 3234. Wood's Conch, p. 162. 



Inhabits Java. Linnaus. 



Linnaeus of this species only says, " that it is like T. incamata, 

 but is of a violet colour, more brittle, nearly truncated at the 

 anterior end, which has the cartilage slope separated by an 

 elevated line, and all the teeth of the hinge notched." He 

 has not given any reference, and no subsequent author has 

 described it; it is probably nearly allied to T. opalina. 



punicea. 44. Shell oval, compressed, nearly equi- 

 lateral, and densely striated transversely. 



