PLvVTE LXIV. 



FIG. JI. 



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TELLINA RIVALIS. 



RIVER TELLEN. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell oblique, somewhat ovatcd, furrowed transversely, and of aa 

 horn colour. 



Tellina Rivalis : testa oblique subovata transversim sulcata cornel 

 coloris. Maton. Linn. Trans, vol. 3. 



The English naturalist is indebted to Dr. William Maton, author of 

 the Tour of the Western Counties, for the discovery of this new and 

 interesting British species. The first account of it appeared in a paper 

 presented by him to the Linnasan Society, and afterwards inserted in 

 their Transactions ; and it is to this gentleman also our thanks arc 

 due for the specimens figured in the annexed plate. We have seen it 

 since in the Collection of William Pilkington, Esq. Whitehall ; who 

 recently found it in the river near Hungerford in Beikshire. 



Dr. Maton, in his remarks on this species, says, " It does not appear 

 to have been described, and probably was never seen by LinnjEus, nor 

 has it been noticed by any English writer on Conchology ; a figure, 

 however, of it occurs in Gnalteri's IndcXy Teslacrum. Conchy- 

 lioriim {Tab. l.fig.C. C.) but has been referred to by Professor 



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