76 PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY. 



Family TELLINIDiE. 

 Genus TELLINA Linnaeus. 



Tellina peracuta. 



Plate xiv, fig. 7, 



Tellina peracuta Conrad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, PL IV, fig. 11; Heilprin, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1887, pp. 397 and 403. 



"Elliptical, subequilateral; posteriorly rostrated and acute. 



"A small species, allied to T. polita Say, but longer in proportion, and 

 more acute. 7 ' (Conrad, loc. cit.) 



I have seen no specimens of this species that I could fully recognize; 

 a few fragments of shell which may possibly have been derived from it have 

 been noticed in the loose marl, but none Sufficiently entire to show any of 

 the features. Above I have given Mr. Conrad's description, and I copy 

 his figure as nearly as possible. Mr. Conrad gives " Shiloh, Cumberland 

 County, N. J.," as the locality. 



Tellina (Tellinella) capillifera. 



Plate xiv, figs. 8-10. 



Tellina (Tellinella) capillifera, Conrad; Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 2, p. 71, PL iv, fig. 2. 

 Tellina Shilohensis, Heilprin (not Conrad) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1887, pp. 397 

 and 403; Cont. to the Tert. Geol. and Pal. of the U. S., p. 8. 



Mr. Conrad describes this species as follows: " Triangular, inequilateral, 

 very thin in substance; umbonal slope of right valve slightly carinated, 

 submarginal, straight, bounded posteriorly by a slightly impressed line, end 

 subtruncated, much above the line of the base; surface with minute, close, 

 hair-like, concentric lines on the anterior side; lateral teeth prominent; left 

 valve ventricose." 



The shell figured by Mr. Conrad under the above name comes to me 

 labeled "Tellina Shilohensis Conrad," but I can find no reference to such a 

 name in any catalogue except that by Mr. Heilprin referred to above, or in 

 any paper by Mr. Conrad; and I presume the error has been caused by a 



