TELLINA. 91 



Tellina punicea. Born. Mus. p. 33. t. 2. f. 8. Schroeter 



Einl. iii. p. 22. Gmelin, p. 3239- Maton and Racket, 



in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 51. Wood's Conch, p. 170. t. 39. 



f. 1. 



Tellina la?ta. Solanders MSS. Pulteney 1 s Dorset Cat. 



p. 29. Montagu Test. p. 51. 

 Tellina striata. Chemnitz, x. p. 349- t. 170. f. 1654 and 



1655. 

 Tellina angulosa. Gmelin, p. 3244. Wood's Conch, p. 



178, 

 Tellina inaequistriata. Donovan, iv. t. 123. 

 Inhabits the Coasts of Britain. Pulteney, fyc. West Indian 

 Seas and Coasts of Guinea, and Rhode Island in North 

 America. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about three quarters of an inch, or sometimes an inch 

 and a quarter long, and nearly twice as broad ; flat, mode- 

 rately strong, and marked with strong regular concentric 

 strias; the hinge is almost central, but a little nearer the 

 anterior end, which is slighdy angulated, and inflected ; the 

 primary teeth are bifid, and the lateral teeth prominent ; it 

 varies from yellowish white, to rose colour, which often 

 form lighter and darker shades in concentric bands. 



depressa. 45. Shell ovate-oblong, compressed, 

 striated transversely, and rather pointed at 

 the anterior end. 



Tellina depressa. Gmelin, p. 3238. Donovan, v. t. 163. 



Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 51. Dorset 



Cat. p. 30. t. 5. f. 2. Wood's Conch, p- 171. t. 45. f. 3. 



Tellina squalida. Solander's MSS. Pulteney Dorset Cat. 



p. 29. Montagu Test. p. 56. 

 Gualter, t. 88. f. L, Chemnitz, vi. t. 10. f. 96. 



Inhabits the coasts of Britain. Pulteney, fyc. 



Shell about an inch long, and an inch and three quarters broad, 

 flat, rounded at one end, and angulated, and somewhat in- 

 flected and pointed at the other ; the colour is pale orange 

 yellow sometimes nearly white, especially towards the margins, 

 and recent shells are frequently covered with a thin brownish 

 epidermis ; the hinge is placed a little nearer to the anterior 

 end, and has two teeth in one valve, and three in the other, 

 of which one is rather remote. 



fabula. 46. Shell ovate, compressed, slightly pro- 

 duced and inflected at the anterior end ; one 

 valve smooth, and the other obliquely striated. 



