PLATE XIX. 



FIG. II. II. 



TELLINA TENUIS. 



thin tellen: 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Thin. Subrotund, glossy ; — colour sometimes red 



Tellina Planata: Concha testa subrotunda glabra incarnate. 



Linn. F.Suec. 1. p. 381. No. 1335. 

 Tellina testa-ovata compressa, transversim substriata laevi: margi- 



nibus acutis, &c. S. N. p. 1117. No. 52. 

 Tellina valde tenuis, parva, subrotunda, plerumque rubra. Tenuis. 



Thin. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 210. Sp. 43. 

 Tellina parva, intus rubra, ad alteram latus sinuosa. List. Conch. 



tab. 405. fig. 250. 

 Tellina lsevrs intus et extra rubra, ad latus sinuosa. lb. fig. 25 1 . 

 Tellina planata. Plain. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 29. tab. 48. fig. 29 v 



Found on many of our shores, as Kent, Essex, Cornwall, Sec. 

 Some of the varieties are extremely delicate, and prettily streaked 

 with pale red and white : many are entirely white, or white tinged 

 with yellow. Some are orange colour ; but the rarest kind is deep 

 violeror purple. 



