PLATE XCVII. 



TELUNA FABULA. 



SEMI-STRI^TED TELLER, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



The hinge usually furnished with three teeth. Shell n-enerally 

 sloping on one side. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



A.\0 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell ovate, compressed, inflected, or rather produced at one end. 

 One valve smooth, the other marked with numerous oblique reflected 

 strise. 



Tellina Fabula : testa ovata compressa inflexa anterlus subros- 

 trata : valva altera Isevi, altera oblique substriata : 

 striis reflexis. — Gronov. Zooph. tab. 13. fig. 9. 

 Gmel. Linn. Sijst. Nat. T. I. p. 6. p. 3239. 

 sp. 61. 



Wc drscovered tliis very unusual species on tlie sands opposite to 

 Caldy Island, about two miles beyond Tcnby^ Pembrokeshire. It is 



