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to one end ; the cartilage end is fliort and much floped 

 from the hinge, fo as to have a fub-truncated appearance, 

 like the genus Do7iax : the hinge is furniflied with two 

 teeth in one valve ; that behind the beak extends into a 

 lateral lamina ; a Tingle tooth in the other valve, Infide 

 fmooth, glofTy, yellow, rayed like the external part but 

 more faint. Some fpecimens are almoll white, but rarely 

 without a red mark at the icmh, at which part, and on 

 the margin of the umbonal regions, the colour is ftrong- 

 efl: in all. Length rarely more than half an inch, breadth 

 three-quarters of an inch. 



We have found this elegant fpecies in Falmouth har- 

 bour; and in Salcomb bay, in DevonJIiire : have alfo re- 

 ceived it from our worthy friend and able conchologift 

 Mr. Boys of Sandwich, on the fliores of which place it 

 is not uncommon. Do6ior Pulteney fpeaks of its being 

 found at Weymouth fparingly. Mr. PexNnant, who pro- 

 bably intended this for his trifafciata, has been miRakcn 

 in quoting that {hell of Linn.eus : we believe that fpecies 

 has never been found in England. 



5. 

 Teliina tenuis. Da Cojia. p. 210. Tenuis 



Don. Br. Shells, i. t. 19. 3 lower figures. 

 Teliina planata. Br. Zool. t. 48. {.29.— Turt. Lin. iv. p. 188. 

 Teliina polita. Pult. Cat. Dorfet. p. 29. 



Lifter Conch, t. 405. f. 250.251. 

 Chem. Conch, vi. t. 11. f. 101; 

 Gualt. 11. M. 



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