TELLINA. 147 



white, and the lateral teeth are wanting. It inhabits 

 the Indian Ocean, and is usually about an inch and a 

 half long, and two inches broad. 



The figure in Lister, pi. 388. f. 235., referred to by 

 Gmelin, is not this shell ; and figure 74, in pi. 9. of 

 Chemnitz, may be considered as a variety of the T. 

 angulata, but not so characteristic of the species as 

 f. 75. 



VARYING TELLEN. 



6. Tellina Gari. T. testa ovali, striis transversis recurvatis ; dentibus 

 lateralibus obsoletis. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. p. 1117. Linn. Gmel. 

 p. 3229. 



Shell oval, with transverse recurved striae ; lateral teeth obsolete. 



Rumph. Mus. pi. 45. f. D. Knorr Vergn. 6. t. 12. f. 2. Chem. Conch. 

 6. pi. 10. f. 92. Schrot. Conch. 2. p. 644. pi. 7. f. 9. 



/3. Chem. Conch. 6. pi. 10. f. 94. 



This species varies in its colours, like the T. virgata, 

 and somewhat resembles that shell in shape, but is of a 

 smaller size, and narrower. It is a little inflected be- 

 fore, and has transverse wrinkles, crossed in the middle 

 by perpendicular, or rather oblique, striae. The pre- 

 vailing colour is cinereous, with, or without, brown 

 rays ; sometimes it is white with blue rays, and some- 

 times bluish, spotted with white, and rayed with red ; 

 it occurs also of a reddish-white with red rays. The 

 variety noticed by Chemnitz, pi. 10. f. 94. is a rough 

 shell, with diverging striae : his figure 93., is a Sole?i, 

 see the Amethystine Razor. 



This shell was first discovered by Rumphius ; it 

 inhabits the Indian Ocean. 



