158 TELLINA. 



The shell is two inches long, and three and a quarter 

 broad. 



Inhabits the West Indies. 



This species greatly resembles the T. planata. The 

 figure in Gualtieri, to which Linnaeus has referred, is 

 very like our present subject, but it is broader in pro- 

 portion to its length, and the margin is somewhat in- 

 flected. 



RAYED TELLEN. 

 PL 38. /. 2, 3. Dr. Coombe. 



26. Tellina radiata. T. testa oblonga, longitudinaliter subtilissime sub- 



striata, nitida, sutura anali canaliculata. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 



p. 1117. Linn. Gmel. p. 3232. 

 Shell oblong, very finely striated longitudinally, polished ; suture behind 



the beaks channelled. 

 List. Conch, t. 393. f. 240. Gualt. Test. pi. 89. f. 1. Argenville Conch. 



pi. 22. f. A. Knorr Belie. Nat. pi. B. 3. f. 8. Vergn. 1. pi. 



19. f. 1. and 4. pi. 2. f. 2. 4. Rugenf. Conch. 1. pi. 8. f. 22. Chem. 



Conch. 6. pi. 11. f. 102. Encyclop. Method, pi. 289. f. 2. 



This is a highly polished, oblong shell, rayed with 

 red on a white ground ; it varies in colour, being some- 

 times without rays, and sometimes banded with yellow. 

 The beak is slightly inflected, and the margin smooth, 

 blunt, and somewhat incurved. The inside is white, or 

 yellowish, and often stained near the margin, like the 

 rays on the outside ; the hinge has two teeth in one 

 valve, and one in the other ; the lateral teeth are remote. 

 The size of the shell varies from one inch in breadth, 

 to more than three. 



