PLATE XCVII. 



TELLINA FABULA. 



SEMI-STRIATED TELLEN, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



The hinge usually furnished with three teeth. Shell generally 

 sloping on one side. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell ovate, compressed, inflected, or rather produced at one end. 

 One valve smooth, the other marked with numerous oblique reflected 

 6trise. 



Tellina Fabula : testa ovata compressa inflexa anterius subros* 

 trata : valva altera l<evi, altera oblique substriata : 

 striis reflexis. — Gronov. Zooph. tab. 13. fig. 9. 

 Gmel, Linn. Sj/st. Nat. T. I. p. 6. p. 3239. 

 sp. 61. 



We discovered this very unusual species on the sands opposite to 

 Caldy Island, about two miles beyond Tenby, Pembrokeshire. It is 



