170 TELLINA. TELLEN. 



8. Tellina Fabula. Single oblique Tellen. 



Donovan, pi. 97 fl^ood, pi. 45. f. 4 Dorset Cat. pi. 12. 

 f. 3, and 3. a. 



Shell oval, thin, glossy white, often reddish or yellowish 

 towards the hinge, transparent, sometimes reflecting iri- 

 descent colors, much produced at the anterior end to a 

 point which is a little turned up ; one of the valves quite 

 smooth, the other marked with very fine oblique longitu- 

 dinal striae : hinge lateral, with three teeth in one valve 

 and two in the other : length sometimes half an inch ; 

 breadth more than three-quarters. 



Mr. Diliwyri, as is not unfrequent with him, has inverted 

 the length and the breadth of this shell. 



On most sandy coasts, v. v. 



9. Tellina similis. Double oblique Tellen. 

 Sowerby, Brit. Miscell. pi. 75. 



Shell much resembling the last, but both the valves are 

 obliquely striate longitudinally over five-sixths of the sur- 

 face, leaving a small portion of each valve quite smooth : 

 the smaller end is also not so much produced, more rounded, 

 and not in the least turning upwards : length about a 

 quarter of an inch ; breadth half an inch. 



Independently of the difference in the striae, we cannot 

 but think, with Mr. Sowerby, that the more rounded ter- 

 mination of the smaller end, and more especially the want 

 of the flexure upwards, a character always present in T. Fa- 

 bula, entitle it to specific distinction. 



Found near Brighton : very rare. v. m. 



10. Tellina Donacina. Wedge-shaped Tellen. 

 Montagu, pi. 27. f. 3 Linn. Trans, yiii. pi. 1. f. 7 



Wood,^\. 45. f. 5 Dorset Cat. pi. 12. f. 3. b. 



Shell oval, thin, glossy, semitrans parent, finely striate 

 transversely, rounded and a little dilated at one end, ab- 

 ruptly sloping and obliquely truncate at the other which is 

 a little flexuous and turned up at the lower angle : color 

 yellowish-white with red longitudinal rays irregularly dis- 

 posed, and which sometimes appear in chain-like rows j 

 inside glossy yellowish white, with faint appearances of 



the 



