PLATE CLXIII. 



TELLINA DEPRESSA. 



DEPRESSED TELLEN. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



The hinge usually furnished with three teeth. Shell generally sloping 



on one side. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Shell inequilateral, depressed, and very minutely striated. 



Tellina Depress a : testa inaequilatera depressa minutissimc striata* 

 Gmel. Linn. Syst. p. 3238. sp. 55. 

 Gualt. test. t. 88. /. Z. 



Tellina Squalida. Soland Mus. Port.—-Pidt. Cat. Dors. p. 29. 



In the summer of the year 1800, we first discovered this shell, 

 laying in plenty upon the sands on the south east side of Tenby, Pem- 

 brokeshire ; where they had been apparently thrown up by a violent 

 sea that had raged with considerable fury two or three hours before. 

 This shell we conceived to be an undescribed British shell, but have 

 since found that it had been observed on the north shore of Poole, 

 a' Weymouth, sparingly, by Dr. Pultney, and described by him in 



