TELLINA. Al 
Tellina renries. 
The circumstance of the name remies having been derived 
from the appellation bestowed by Rumphius in his ‘ Thesaurus’ 
upon this orbicular Tellen, corrects the erroneous reference by 
our author to plate 43 (instead of 42), a mistake which he has 
himself rectified in his own revised copy of the ‘ Systema.’ 
That figure and the language of the ‘Museum Ulric’ leave 
no doubt of the identity of the species with the Tellina remies 
of Chemnitz (vol. vi. pl. 12, f. 118) and of most authors (not 
of Born), an example of which is still preserved in the box so 
marked in the Linnean cabinet. Gualtier’s extremely rude en- 
eraving, being irrecognisable, cannot be quoted for this or any 
other shell: it exhibits, however, the shape and coarse concen- 
tric wrinkles of the species. 
Selina reticulata, 
The cited figure of Rumphius (pl. 42, not 43) represents a 
most coarsely decussated shell (which reminds one a little of the 
Lucina exasperata of Reeve), and does not at all coincide in 
sculpture with the delicate reticulation particularised in the 
description. As our author has not declared his possession of 
the species, no importance can be attached to the presence in 
his collection of the West Indian Amphidesma reticulatum 
(Crouch, Lam. Conch. pl. 4, f. 9), a shell supposed to be the 
representative of this species by Chemnitz (Conch. Cab. vol. vi. 
pl. 12, f. 118), Spengler, Schréter, Wood, &c. Yet assuredly 
that shell coincides so very fairly with the indicated character- 
istics that the Linnean Tellen may be referred to it with a note 
of interrogation attached. The authenticated locality, “‘ Habi- 
tat in India, T'esdorff,’ and the expression “‘lynceo tantum vi- 
dendis,” applied to the concentric lyre, as well as to the minute 
radiating striz, forbid a more positive determination. 
