TELIINA. J 03 



Petiver Gaz. t. 156. f. 26. Klein Ost. t. 9. f. 28. Fa- 

 vanne, t. 48. f. E. 1 . Eric. Method, t. 289. f. 4, 



Inhabits the coast of Brazil. Bonanni. Mediterranean. Lin- 

 nceus. American Seas. D 'Avila. Coasts of Naples. 

 Ulysses. 



The usual length is about half or three-quarters of an inch, and 

 the breadth is very nearly the same ; it is a strong, rather 

 pellucid white shell, with numerous fine parallel stride run- 

 ning obliquely in opposite directions at the two ends, and 

 forming an obtuse angle near the middle ; the hinge is cen- 

 tral, and is said to have a double primary tooth at the hinge, 

 but no lateral teeth. 



dentata. 71. Shell sub-orbicular, convex, with 

 the two sides obliquely striated in opposite 

 directions, and the margin serrated. 



Tellina dentata. Wood's Conch, p. 195. t. 46. f. 6. 



Inhabits 



Mr. Wood has figured this elegant shell from Mrs. Mawe's 

 cabinet, and says, it differs from T. divaricata in the follow- 

 ing particulars : " The upper part of the margin is strongly 

 dentated, particularly the posterior edge ; the rest of the cir- 

 cumference is serrated ; the concentric striae are somewhat 

 raised from the surface of the shell, and like the margin, 

 have serrated edges ; the waved stria;, on the surface, are 

 finer and closer than in T. divaricata. The umbones are 

 prominent, and turn inwards." 



digitaria. 72. Shell sub-orbicular, convex, and 

 surrounded with uniform oblique curved 

 striae. 



Tellina digitaria. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1120. Chemnitz, 

 vi. p. 126. t. 12. f. 121. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 664. 

 Gmelin, p. 3241. Wood's Conch, p. 196. 

 Cardium arcuatum. Montagu Test. p. 85. t. 3. f. 2. Ma- 

 ton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 67. Wood's 

 Conch, p. 213. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 292. f. 5. 

 Variety. Shell near an inch long. 

 Chemnitz, vi. p. 125. t. 12. f. 120. 

 Enc. Method, t. 292. f. 6. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnceus. Mediterranean, and 

 ^ the Variety from the Nicobar Islands. Chemnitz. 

 Shell usually not more than three lines long, and less than four 



