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neath which it is glofTy. Infide fometimes yellow, in 

 others white; margin remarkably fl-.arp. Length an inch; 

 breadth an inch and three-quarters. Dr. Pulteney fays 

 it is found on the north (hore at Poole, and at Weymouth 

 fparingly. 



We have found it in Cornwall and on feveral parts of 

 the fouth coaft of Devon, 



3. 

 Tellina lacta. Pult. Cat. Dorfet. p. 29. L«ta. 



Tellina punicea. Gi/iel. Syji. p. 3239. — Turt. Lin. iv. p. 194. 



Born. Mus. t. 2. f. 8. 



Chan. Conch, x. t. 170. f. 1654. 55. 



T. with an ovate-oblong, flat, and moderately ftrong 

 fhell, marked with ftrong, regular, concentric ftrise: 

 equivalve, and nearly equilateral : iimho fmall, pointed ; 

 hinge furnifhed with three teeth; the outer one on the 

 anterior fide bifid, the other exterior one broad, more 

 diftant, (landing obliquely tranfverfe, and is a fort of me- 

 dium between a primary and a lateral tooth; in each 

 valve one lateral laminated tooth very remote : margin 

 (harp. 



Englijh fpecimens are ufually of a plain yellowifli-, 

 white, without any of the coloured markings obferved in 

 exotics, which are rofe or carnation, and frequently with 

 lighter and darker (hades in concentric bands. In fize 



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