294 TELLINID^. 



An example is recorded by Turton, which measured an 

 incli and n quarter in length, and three-quarters of an inch 

 in breadth, dimensions far exceeding those that are ordin- 

 arily met with. 



The animal is entirely while and of the same shape as 

 the shell ; compressed and oblong. The mantle is freely 

 open, and its margin conspicuously fringed. The siphonal 

 tubes are very long and slender, distinct from each other 

 throughout their lengths, plain at their extremities, marked 

 at their sides by whitish lines, what appears to be cilici- 

 ferous. The foot is ovate, acute, and compressed. The 

 labial palpi are narrow. 



This is a widely distributed shell and one of our prettiest 

 Tellens. It occurs at Guernsey (S. H.) ; and all along the 

 coasts of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. At W. Portland 

 bay it occurred alive in fifteen fathoms water, and at Pen- 

 zance in twenty (M 'Andrew and E. F.). It has been 

 taken at Tenby (Lyons) ; and on the north coast of Wales 

 in from twelve to more fathoms (M'Andrew and E. F.). 

 On the east coast it occurs at Scarborough (Bean) ; off 

 Norfolk (Stanley) ; and on the coast of Northumberland 

 (Alder). In Ireland it is abundant in Bantry Bay, rare 

 and occasional in the north, as at Strangford and Port- 

 maruock (W. Thompson). It is frequent in the Clyde 

 district (Smith) ; the Hebrides (Jeffreys) ; and the Orkney, 

 Zetland, and Moray Firth coasts (M'Andrew) ; but is apt 

 to be confounded with the following species. In those 

 localities, it and its ally have been taken alive at various 

 depths from five to fifty fathoms. It occurs also in the 

 Forth district. 



Abroad it is a common inhabitant of the southern coasts of 

 Europe, but does not extend its range northwards of Britain, 

 being replaced in the Norwegian seas by T. pygmcea. 



