Class VI. TELLINA. BENT-WEDGE. 177 



GENUS VII. TELLINA. BENT-WEDGE. 



Animal, a Tethys. .!.••. 



Shell generally sloping on one side. . 

 Teeth, three at the hinge ; side teeth in one 

 of the valves flat or wanting. 



* Ovate, thickish. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 48. id. iii. 252. 1. macu- 



LATA. 



T. with a shell nearly ovate ; thick, striated in a 

 decussated manner, irregularly spotted. 

 Found at Tenby ^ South Wales. 



** Ovate compressed. _ 



Gm. Lin. 3235. T. Bor- 



Lin. Tr. viii. 4g. 



2. FERRCEN- 



nii. ib. 3231. 



Mont. Test. Br. 55. 



SIS. 



carnation. 



T. oblong, depressed; originally covered with 

 a thick brown epidermis. When naked, of a 

 whitish color rayed with red, and crossed again 

 with minute concentric strice. Usual breadth 

 one inch and three quarters. Tab, 1. Jig. 3. 



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