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ftri?2 : at the poften'or end a flexure from the u7nbo to the 

 margin: uvibo fmall, nearly central, and not turning to 

 either fide: hinge furniflied with ftrong lateral teeth, 

 that on the cartilage fide very remote : one of the primary 

 teeth in each valve bifid. Infide fmooth, white; margin 

 plain. This fliell is nearly as long as it is broad; the fides 

 flope confiderably, and occafion the umbo to be much 

 produced. In fome points of view many fine opaque radii 

 are obferved, as it were within the body of the fliell. 



Doftor PuLTENEY, who firft gave this fpecies as 

 BritiJ}!, Rates it to have been found one inch and three- 

 quarters wide, dredged up at Weymouth; and adds that 

 fmall ones are found on the fliore. 



10. 

 Venus craiTa. Gmel. Syji. p. 32S8. 90. Crass a. 



Tellina crafTa. Br. Zool t 48. f. 28. 



Turt Lin. iv. p. 186. 

 Peftunculus deprefllor. Da. Cojla. p. 194. 1. 13. f. 4. right hand. 

 Tellina rigida PuU. Cat. Dorfet. p. 30. 



Ltjier Conch, t. 299. f. 136. 



Favan. t. 48. O. 



T. with a llrong, thick, fub-orbicular fliell, with fine 

 clofe-fet, concentric flriae, interrupted by a few coarfer 

 ridges : colour white, with broad and narrow rays of 

 pink, moll confpicuous towards the margin: fome are 

 plain white, others of a yellowifli caft : the valves un- 

 equal ; the left or lower valve is confiderably convex, the 



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