304 TELLINID^. 



The animal closely resembles that of Tellina tenuis, 

 though differing of course materially in its outlines. Its 

 siphonal tubes appear to be rather longer than in that spe- 

 cies. It is entirely white. 



Wherever the coast exhibits a long expanse of sand, 

 this species is almost invariably present ; and almost al- 

 ways in considerable abundance. Localities need not be 

 cited, as it occurs in all favourable places around England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, from north to south. Like the last 

 species, it is usually a littoral shell, but ranges deeper, oc- 

 curring occasionally at a depth of ten or twelve fathoms. 

 It ranges throughout the Celtic and Lusitanian regions of 

 the European seas, but is not enumerated by Loven among 

 the mollusks of Scandinavia. It is found fossil in the 

 mammaliferous crag of Southwold. 



T. soLiDULA, Pulteney, 



Roundish-ovate ; convex or sub ventri cose, smooth ; teeth very 

 small, no lateral ones. 



Plate XX. fig. 6. 



Lister, Hist. Conch, pi. 405, f. 250. 

 Tellina carnaria, Penn. (not Linn.) Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. p. 88, pi. 49, f. 3"2. 

 „ rtdtra. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 211, pi. 12, f. 4. 

 „ soliduhi, Pulteney, in Hutchins' Hist. Dorset, p. 29. — Mont. Test. 

 Brit. p. 63. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 58. — Dorset Catalocf. 

 p, 31, pi. 8, f. 4.— Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 177.— Macgii,- 

 Liv. Moll. Aberdeen, p. 279. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 70. — 

 Brown, Hlust. Conch. G. B. p. 101, pi. 40, f. 14.— Wood, 

 General Conch, p. 193, pi. 46, f. 2. — Lam. Anim. s. Vert, 

 (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 206. — Index Testaceolog. pi. 4, f. 84. 

 — Hanl. Recent Shells, p. 70. — Hanl. in Sowerb. Thesaur. 

 Conch, p. 318, pi. 59, f. 109, 1 1 0.— Loven, Moll. Suecia;, 

 pi. 41. 

 Tellina zonata, Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 100. 



Psammobia solidula, Turt. Dithyra Brit. p. 95, pi. 8, f. 2. — Flem. Brit. Anim. 

 p. 438. 



Tellina Bulthica, Philipti, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 28, and vol. ii. p. 22 Forbes, 



Mem. Geol. Surv. vol. i. p, 411. 



