7(5 PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW JEEbEY. 



Family TELLINID.E. 



Genus TELLINA Linnaeus. 



Tellina peracuta. 



Plate XIV, fig. 7. 



Tellina peracuta Courad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, PI. iv, fig. 11; Heilprin, 

 Proc. Acad. 'Sat. Sci. Phil.. 1887, pp. 397 and 403. 



"Elliptical, .subequi lateral; posteriorly rostrated and acute. 



" A small species, allied to T. jioUta Say, but longer in proportion, and 

 more acute." (Com-ad, loc. cit.) 



I have seen no specimens of this species that I could I'ully recognize; 

 a few fragments of shell which may possibly have been derived from it have 

 been noticed in the loose marl, but none sufficiently entu-e to show any of 

 the features. Above 1 have given Mr. Conrad's description, and I copy 

 liis iigure as nearly as possible. Mr. Conrad gives " Shiloh, Cumberland 

 County, N. J.," as the locality. 



Tellina (Tellinella) capillifera. 



Plate XIV, figs. 8-10. 



Tellina {Tellinella) capillifera, Conrad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, PI. iv, fig. 2. 

 Tellina Shilohenfiis, Heilprin (not Conrad); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1887, pp. 397 

 and 403; Cout. to the Tert. Geol. and Pal. of the U. S., p. 8. 



Mr. Conrad describes this species as follows: " Triangular, inequilateral, 

 very thin in substance; umbonal slope of right valve slightly carinated, 

 submarginal, straight, bounded posteriorly by a slightly impressed line, end 

 subtruncated, much above the line of the base; surface with minute, close, 

 hair-like, concentric lines on the anterior side; lateral teeth prominent; left 

 valve ventricose." 



The shell figured bv ]\Ir. Conrad under the above name comes to me 

 labeled " Tellina Shilohensis Conrad," but I can find no reference to such a 

 name in any catalogue except that by Mr. Heilprin referred to above, or in 

 any paper by Mr. Conrad; and 1 presume the error has been caused by a 



