﻿508 
  Panama 
  Shells. 
  tellenid^. 
  

  

  Tellina 
  rubescens 
  Hanley 
  in 
  Sowb. 
  Thes. 
  Conch, 
  p, 
  242. 
  No. 
  

  

  38. 
  pi. 
  60. 
  f. 
  153. 
  - 
  . 
  . 
  - 
  1846. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  In 
  sandy 
  mud 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  ! 
  Hanley. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Panama 
  and 
  Tumbez 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  ! 
  Hanley. 
  

  

  Tumbez 
  ; 
  Jay."; 
  

  

  Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

   2 
  specimens 
  were 
  found. 
  

  

  470. 
  Tellina 
  siliqua. 
  Nov. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Shell 
  elongate, 
  subelliptic, 
  very 
  thin, 
  very 
  convex, 
  very 
  in- 
  

   equilateral 
  ; 
  ventral 
  margin 
  nearly 
  straight 
  ; 
  anterior 
  margin 
  

   well 
  rounded 
  ; 
  anterior 
  dorsal 
  margin 
  slightly 
  excurved, 
  mode- 
  

   rately 
  sloping; 
  posterior 
  dorsal 
  margin 
  straight 
  or 
  concave, 
  

   sloping 
  to 
  a 
  small 
  subtruncate 
  posterior 
  extremity; 
  flexure 
  

   great 
  : 
  pure 
  white 
  : 
  with 
  excessively 
  minute 
  concentric 
  strise 
  : 
  

   beaks 
  acute 
  : 
  ligament 
  small 
  : 
  cardinal 
  teeth 
  small 
  ; 
  lateral 
  teeth 
  

   wanting. 
  Dr. 
  Gould 
  suggested 
  the 
  very 
  appropriate 
  name 
  

   which 
  we 
  have 
  adopted. 
  

  

  Length 
  .7 
  inch 
  ; 
  height 
  .4 
  inch 
  ; 
  breadth 
  .3 
  inch. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  Unknown. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

   1 
  specimen 
  was 
  found. 
  

  

  471.— 
  Tellina 
  isimiilanjs. 
  Nov. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

  

  Tellina 
  punicea 
  (pars) 
  Hanley 
  in 
  Sowb. 
  Thes. 
  Conch. 
  I. 
  239. 
  1846. 
  

  

  Shell 
  subovate, 
  solid, 
  moderately 
  convex, 
  nearly 
  inequilate- 
  

   ral 
  ; 
  ventral 
  margin 
  slightly 
  excurved 
  ; 
  anterior 
  margin 
  well 
  

   rounded 
  ; 
  anterior 
  dorsal 
  margin 
  slightly 
  excurved 
  ; 
  poste- 
  

   rior 
  dorsal 
  margin 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  sloping 
  ; 
  posterior 
  extremity 
  

   obliquely 
  truncated 
  ; 
  flexure 
  slight 
  : 
  white, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  deeply 
  

   tinged 
  with 
  rose 
  color 
  except 
  near 
  the 
  margin 
  and 
  around 
  the 
  

  

  