88 



Abundant on the sandy beach about the mouth of the Biver 

 Murray ; occasionally in Holdfast and Aldinga Bays ; St. 

 Peter and St. Francis Isles (Lamarckian types); Fowler's Bay. 

 Extends to Tasmania and New South Wales. 



About two inches long, oval, compressed, subangulated pos- 

 teriorly ; pink or orange, rarely white. 



44. Tellixa deltoidalis, Lamarck, op. cit., p. 532 (exclus. 

 var. b.). T. lactcsa, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, t. 81, 

 f . 14—16. 



Between tide marks in the estuary of the Port Adelaide 

 Creek, the Patawalonga and Onkaparinga, St. Vincent's G-ulf ; 

 Encounter Bay; also St. Francis Isles (Lamarckian types). It 

 occurs in Victoria, Tasmania, and New South "Wales ; New 

 Zealand, New Caledonia, Acapulco. 



Shell roundly triangular, compressed, subrostrated, white. 

 Length, about one inch. 



45. Telllna capsoides, Lamarck, An. s. V., v., p. 531; id. 

 Bomer, Mon. Tell., t. 14, f. 1—3. 



St. Peter and St. Francis Isles ; also at the Philippines 

 (Peron, Lamarck). 



Broadly trigonal, subequilateral, concentrically and radiately 

 striated ; anterior side bisulcated ; white. Length, one and 

 three-quarter inches {JLamarcU). 



46. Tellina te]s'Uilirata, Sowerby, in Beeve, Mon., t. 39, 

 f. 219. 



Hog Bay, Kangaroo Island ; Streaky Bay ; Port Adelaide 

 Creek; also New South "Wales, N. Australia, and Fiji. 



Oblong, posterior side very short, cuneiform ; post-ventral 

 margin rapidly ascending ; concentrically finely ridged. 

 Length, three-eighths of an inch. 



47. Telllna sxjbdiltjta, Tate, antea, p. 65, t. 4, f. 9. 

 Encounter Bay, in 22 fathoms. 



Ovately oblong, rounded on the very short posterior side, 

 attenuated anteriorly ; finely concentrically ridged. Length, 

 three-eighths of an inch. 



48. Tellina ensiformis, Sowerby, in Beeve, Mon., t. 49, 

 f. 289 (1868). 



Aldinga Bay ; Australia (Sowerly) . 



Left valve, broadly triangular-ovate subequilateral, much 

 curved longitudinally, attenuated and subrostrated behind ; 

 transparent, white ; length one inch, width a little more than 

 half-inch. 



49. Tellina Aldingensis, Tate, antea, p. 66, t. 5, f. 2. 

 Aldinga Bay. 



