Section Soissula Dall. 

 TSILirA (SGI3SIJIA) SCITULA Dall. 



Tellina ( Sgissula ) sjitala Jail, 1900, Trans* V/agner ?ree Inst. 

 Sol.., Philadelphia, vol. 3, pt . 5, p. 1028, pi. 17, 

 fiP'. 15. 



Oesori -.tion .- ''Shell small, thin, elonp-ate-ovate , polish- 

 eel, inequilateral; roiHidecl Ir: front, noci cratelj^ pointed behind: 

 beaks lor;; suriaee with Une, r cf.'vJx:. r, rather close striae e::- 

 t ending obli-'^ely "backward t owa'rds the hase, with more or lc;.s 

 evident microcco oie r\- 'ial stri'alstion ; posterior dorsal areas 

 iciniitels^ Goncentricallj v/aveo.; interior v;ith no thickened rays; 

 hin.5-e nornal, vex'y delicate; pallial sinu.- long, hirh, normal. 

 Ion. 8, alt. 4.2, diain. l.r; mni." 



"From the young of _J. iris Say (1) Heccnt of the same size 



(1). Jour. Acad. I'at. Sci., '"hil i Iphia, vol. 2, p. , 1822. 



it is a,t once distinrniishable by the much finrr and closer and 

 more oblique striatic- ■ ..^ more pointed posterior erJ^ .^ 



(Dall, 1900). 



?y-pe locality. - :■ ow d en , Jama i c a . 



riQTiBrks .- - .e posterior carina is v/ell- do fined, but lov;. 



