292 TELLINID^. 



Bay, in Oonnemara, (Thomp. Ann. Nat. H. vol. xviii, p. 

 385), and subsequently procured it from the Island of Skye 

 and at Stornoway (Jeff. Ann. Nat. H. vol. xix. p. 313). 

 A fresh and beautifully perfect but pale tinted individual, 

 measuring almost an inch in length, nearly three-quarters in 

 breadth, and containing the animal, was purchased in 1848 

 by Mrs. Gulson of Exmouth, from a fisherman at Falmouth, 

 who dredged it along with other undoubted British species. 

 It is a Lusitanian shell, and ranges into the Mediterranean, 

 where it is not rare in six or seven fathoms water. 



T. DONAciNA, Linnaeus. 



Elongated, concentrically striated ; posterior end short and 

 wedge-shaped ; with two lateral teeth in the right valve. 



Plate XX. figs. 3, 4, and (animal) Plate K. fig. 4. 



Tellina Donacina, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1118. — Pulteney, in Ilutchins' 

 Hist. Dorset, p. '29. — Mont. Test. Brit. p. 58.— Linn. 

 Trans, vol. viii. p. 50 pi. I, f. 7.— Dorset Catalog, p. 29, pi. 

 12, f. 3, b.— TuRT. Conch. Diction, p. 170.— Turt. Dithyra 

 Brit. p. 102, pi. 8, f. 4.— Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 435.— 

 Brit. Marine Conch, p. 67.— Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. 

 p. 101, pi. 40, f. 16.— Wood, General Conch, p. 1 CI, pi. 45, 

 f. 5. — DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 89.— Lam. Anim. s. 

 Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 198. — Deshayes, Elem. Conch, 

 pi. 14, f. 1, 2, 3.— Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 24, and 

 vol. ii. p. 21. — Hanl. Recent Shells, p. 64. — Hanl. in 

 Sow. Thesaur. Conch, vol. i. p. 232, pi. 56, f. 12, and pi. 

 (JQ, f. 259.— Desk. Exped. Scient. Alger. Moll. pi. 69, f. 

 1 to 3 (with animal). 

 Tellina trifasciata, Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, (fide last edit.) p. 88. 



„ variegata, PoLi, Test. Sicil. vol. i. plate 15, f. 10. 



„ Llantivyi, Payraudeau, Catal. Moll. Corse, p. 40. pi. 1, fig. 13, 14. 



Uniting the peculiar contour of the Donaces to the gor- 

 geous colouring of the typical TeUince, this pretty bivalve 

 is of an oblong shape, tolerably firm in texture, nearly 

 opaque, moderately convex, and very inequilateral. Its 



