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plain, otliers are marked v/ith a few interrupted rays of 

 pale purple, which appear like fpots in the fhape of ar- 

 row-heads, befides the broad purple or red (Ireaks ; but 

 in fome the broad marks are entirely wanting, and the 

 pale-purple fpots or rays only vifible, which variety is 

 probably the Tcllina varicgata of Gmelin. Da Costa 

 fays he received this fpecies from the fliores of LancaJJiire 

 and HamliPdrc. Docfor Pulteney fays fparingly on the 

 coafl at Poole and at Weymouth. 



We believe it to be amongfl; the rare fliells o^ Great 

 Britain, though we are informed by Mr. Bryer that it 

 is not uncommon on the fliore between Weymouth and 

 Portland; fpecimens of which he favoured us with, and 

 amongft them a variety entirely white. 



14. 

 Lactea. ■ Tellina laflea. Lin. Syft. p. 1119. 65. 



Tab. 2. f. 4. Gmel. Syji. p. 3240. 69. 



Pulu Cat. Dorfet. p. 30. 

 C/iem. CoTich vi. t. 13, f. 125 ? 

 Petiv. Gaz. t. 93. IS. 

 Gualt. t. 7 1 . D. 

 Turt. Lin. iv. p. T95. 



T. with a thin, orbicular, convex, white fhell, with 

 fine concentric irregular wrinkles: uvibo fmall, turning to 

 one fide, central; hinge furnifhed with vwo teeth in one 

 valve, one in the other; thefe are very fmall, but what 

 at once diflinguilhes this fliell is a deep fulcus or groove 



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