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KELLIA suborbicularis. 



TAB. DCXXXYU.—Jig, I. 



Spec. Char. Suborbicular, nearly equilateral, very 

 convex, smooth; front rather straight; one 

 lateral posterior and two cardinal teeth in the 

 left valve, and one lateral and one cardinal 

 tooth in the other valve. 



Syn. Kellia suborbicularis, Turion, Brit. Biv. bl. 



i. 11./. 5 & 6. Wood, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. V. 6. 2^1. fossil. Morris, Catal. 89. fossil. 

 Mya suborbicularis, Montague, Test. Brit. 39. 



Maton and Racket , Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 8. 41 . 



Montague, Test. Brit. Supp. t. 26. f 6. Tur- 



ton, Brit. Fauna, 167. Dillwi/n, Catal. 55. 



Wood, Index Test. 13. 

 Tellina suborbicularis, Turton, Conch. Diet. 179. 

 Amphidesma physoides. Lam. Hist. Nat. ed. 1. 



V. 5. 493. erf. 2. v. 6. 130. fide G. B. Sowerby. 

 Bornia infiata, Philippi, Enum. Moll. Sicil.v. I. 



14. L. 2. 11. 



A SLIGHT squareness appears to characterise the fossil 

 specimens, whicli are also rather longer than die recent 

 shells, but the difference is so small that Mr. Wood con- 

 siders them the same species ; I have therefore given the 

 synonyms of the recent as well as of the fossil shell. The 

 Amphidesma physoides of Lamarck is an Australian shell, 



