152 TELLINA. 



MINUTE TELLEN. 



16. Tellina pusilla. T. testa ovata, ventricosa, tenui, transverse striata; 



cardine in altera valva edentulo, in altera dente primario duplici. 



Linn. Gmel. p. 3231. 

 Shell oval, ventricose, thin, transversely striated ; hinge in one valve 



toothless, in the other a double primary tooth. 

 Schr'dt. Flussconch. pi. 4. f. 7. a. b. 



A very small, brittle shell, of a dirty white colour. 

 Inhabits the European rivers. 



OBLIQUE TELLEN. 

 PL 41. /. 4,5. Linn^an Society's Cabinet. 



17. Tellina obliqua. T. testa ovali, glaberrima, lineis interruptis pur- 

 purascentibus insignita; dentibus later alibus prominulis. 



Shell oval, very smooth, and marked with interrupted purple lines; 

 lateral teeth rather prominent. 



This species is prettily marked with short, irregular 

 purple lines, that appear on the inside, as well as 

 without; the hinge has two teeth in one valve, and one 

 in the other, besides the remote teeth ; the margin is 

 plain. It is an inch long, and an inch and a quarter 

 broad. 



It is arranged among the Tellens, in the Linnaean So- 

 ciety's collection of Shells, under the name of Obliqua : 

 resembles the Venus Meroe, but has not a denticulated 

 margin. 



