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tranfverfely ; and elegantly radiated with red and white: 

 uvibo very fmall, placed nearly central : teeth two in each 

 valve, no lateral ones : from the umbo an oblique elevated 

 ridge runs to one end, where it torms an angle, and ren- 

 ders all the ilriee at that part angulated and more rugofe. 

 Recent fiiells are frequently covered with a thin yellowidr 

 epidermis. Infide white, or more frequently of a rofy 

 hue, fmooth and glofl'y : margin plain. This does not 

 appear to be a plentiful fpecies. It is fparingly found at 

 Poole diVid Weymouth in Dorfefjliire: Da Costa fays at 

 Scarborough in YorkJJiire. We have found it in Cornzoall, 

 particularly at Falmouth dredged from the harbour; and 

 on feveral parts of the coaft oi' South Devon, 



Certainly not the trifafciata of G.melin. 



SguALiDA. Tellina fqualida. Pa//. Crt/. Dc?/t^ p. 29. 



Telina deprefla, Gmd. Syji, p. 3233. 55 ? 

 Gualt. 88. L. M. 



T. with a thin, flat, fub-oval fhell, faintly flriated con- 

 centrically ; the cartilage end running into a beak : umbo 

 fmall, central; teeth two in one valve, in the other three, 

 one of which is a little remote, laminated at the bafe, 

 fharp at the point: the fmall end of one valve reflefls a 

 little outwards and forms a depredion on the I'urface ; 

 the other turns inwards to correfpond: colour pale 

 orange-vellow, fometimes almoft white. Recent fliells 

 are frequently covered with a thin brown epidermis ; be- 

 neath 



