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PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY. 
Family TELLINID. 
Genus TELLINA Linneus. 
TELLINA PERACUTA. 
Plate xIv, fig. 7. 
Tellina peracuta Conrad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, Pl. Iv, fig. 11; Heilprin, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1887, pp. 397 and 403. 
“Elliptical, subequilateral; posteriorly rostrated and acute. 
‘“A small species, allied to 7. polita Say, but longer in proportion, and 
more acute.” (Conrad, loc. cit.) 
I have seen no specimens of this species that I could fully recognize; 
a few fragments of shell which may possibly have been derived from it have 
been noticed in the loose marl, but none sufficiently entire to show any of 
the features. Above I have given Mr. Conrad’s description, and I copy 
his figure as nearly as possible. Mr. Conrad gives ‘Shiloh, Cumberland 
County, N. J.,” as the locality. 
TELLINA (TELLINELLA) CAPILLIFERA. 
Plate xiv, figs. 8-10. 
Tellina (Tellinella) capillifera, Conrad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, Pl. ty, fig. 2. 
Tellina Shilohensis, Heilprin (not Conrad); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1887, pp. 397 
and 403; Cont. to the Tert. Geol. and Pal. of the U.S., p. 8. 
Mr. Conrad describes this species as follows: “Triangular, inequilateral, 
very thin in substance; umbonal slope of right valve slightly carimated, 
submarginal, straight, bounded posteriorly by a slightly impressed line, end 
subtruncated, much above the line of the base; surface with minute, close, 
hair-like, concentric lines on the anterior side; lateral teeth prominent; left 
valve ventricose.” 
The shell figured by Mr. Conrad under the above name comes to me 
labeled ‘‘ Tellina Shilohensis Conrad,” but I can find no reference to such a 
name in any catalogue except that by Mr. Heilprin referred to above, or in 
any paper by Mr. Conrad; and I presume the error has been caused by a 
