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Telllna carnaria. Don. Br. Shells, n. t. 47. 



Turt. Lin. iv. p. 195. 

 Cardiumcarneofum. Da Cojia. p. ISl. 



T. with a fub-orbicLilar, fub-pellucid, flattifh fhell, 

 with one fide rather longer than the other, ftriated in 

 three direftions ; the middle area is rather oblique from 

 the umbo to the margin ; the pofterior end in an oblique 

 dire6lion the contrary way ; thofe on the anterior margin 

 tranfverfe and undulated; thefe llrias are extremely fine 

 as if cut with an engraving tool : colour moll commonly 

 white, with a rofy hue; others are pink or carnation, 

 and fometimes banded with paler and darker fhades : umbo 

 nearly central, fmall, and turns a little to one fide: hinge 

 furniflied in one valve with two fmall teeth, one of which 

 is bifid, in the other one tooth : lateral laminated teeth 

 remote. Infide fmooth, glofly, moft commonly of a fine 

 rofe colour. Length rarely more than three-quarters of 

 an inch ; breadth about an eighth of an inch more. 



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Do6lor PuLTENEY fays, this elegant fpecies is found 

 fparingly at Poole and at Weymouth. Da Costa men- 

 tions having received it from Scarborough and other 

 places in that county, and likewife in plenty from Dc- 

 vonjlure and Cornzvall. We mufl however remark a fuf- 

 picion that Da Costa was mifled with refpeft to this 

 fliell being plentiful in the laft mentioned counties, as we 

 have examined thofe coafls frequently, without ever find- 

 ing even a fingle valve. 



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