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brown, purple, or pale rose colour ; the lines do not ex- 

 tend, in the specimens we have had an opportunity to 

 examine, to the margin of the shell. Length an inch ; 

 breadth near an inch and a quarter. 

 Its country is not known. 



HEART-SHAPED TELLEN. 



PL 43. /. 4, 5, Linnean Society's Cabinet. 



82. Tellina cordiformis. T. testa suborbiculata, extus albida, intus fla- 



vescente, longitudinaliter densissime, transversim subtilissime striata ; 



cardinis dentibus primariis binis, lateralibus oblongis. 

 Shell suborbicular, on the outside whitish, within yellow, densely 



striated longitudinally, and very finely transversely ; hinge with two 



primary teeth, lateral teeth oblong. 

 Chem. Conch. 11. pi. 199. f. 1941, 1942. 



This species, which is of a dull, yellowish-white co- 

 lour on the outside, and deep yellow within, is ad- 

 mirably figured by Chemnitz. It is a strong shell, and 

 very convex. Length near an inch and a half; breadth 

 rather more. 



It is named T. demissa, in the late Dr. Pulteney's 

 Cabinet of Shells, now in the Linnean Society's Mu- 

 seum. 



