102 TELLINA. 



Montagu has quoted, and which is properly a Donax ; the 

 hinge is placed a little on the anterior side, and has a single 

 large primary tooth in each valve, and strong lateral teeth 



besides, 



balthica. 68. Shell roundish, glabrous, very brit- 

 tle, flesh-coloured on the outside, and smooth 

 within. 



Tellina Balthica. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1120. Born. 

 Miis. p. 38. Chemnitz, vi. p. 133. 1. 13. f. 128. Sckroeter 

 EinL ii. p. 662. Gmelin, p. 3241. Wood's Conch, p. 

 194. 

 Inhabits the Baltic. Linnaus. 



Shell about seven lines long and eight broad, roundish, sub-tri- 

 angular, softish, very brittle, rather compressed, glabrous, 

 and not in any manner striated ; the hinge is the same as in 

 T. carnaria. 



pisiformis. 69. Shell sub-orbicular, smooth, mi- 

 nutely striated obliquely, and the striae re- 

 flected at an acute angle on the anterior end. 



Tellina pisiformis. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1 120. Schroeter 

 EinL ii. p. 663. Gmelin, p. 3241. Wood's Conch, p. 

 194. 

 Cardium discors. Montagu Test. p. 84. Maton and Rac- 

 ket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 67. Wood's Conch, p. 214. 

 Inhabits the European Seas about the mouths of Rivers. 



Linnaus. 

 Shell about three lines long, and three lines and a half broad, 

 sometimes, though rarely, wholly white, but more commonly 

 with the apex and inside purplish or flesh-coloured ; the 

 oblique strice are hardly visible without the assistance of a 

 glass ; the hinge is central, and has one primary tooth in one 

 valve, and two in the' other, of which one is very small ; the 

 lateral teeth are prominent. 



divaricata. 70. Shell sub-orbicular, convex, with 

 the two sides obliquely striated in opposite 

 directions. 



Tellina divaricata. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1120. Chem- 

 nitz, vi. p. 134. t. 13. f. 129. Schroeter EinL ii. p. 663. 

 Gmelin, p. 3241. Wood's Conch, p. 195. t. 46. f. 6. 

 Brooks's Introd. p. 16 1. t. 2. f. 16. 



Bonanni Kirch. 2. f. 104. Lister Conch, t. 301. f. 142. 



