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but somewhat incurved, its slope moderate : flexure conspicuous ; 

 lateral teeth strong and nearly equidistant. 

 Guadaloupe. 



6. Tellina verrucosa (pi. lxviii. f. 77.) Kanley, Zool. Proc. 

 1844. 



T. testa oblongo-elongata, solida,, compressa, ; aut flavida rubro- 

 purpureo radiata, aut pallide rosea radiis subalbidis angustis zo- 

 nisque saturatioribus ornata ; valvula altera undique (natibus ex- 

 cipiendis) verrucosa ; altera medio concentrice sulcata, lateribus 

 solum verrucosa ; verrucis ellipticis aut semilunatis, in seriebus vix 

 interruptis, concentrice ordinatis ; margine ventraU antice subarcu- 

 ato, postice sursum acclinato ; dorsali antice convexiusculo et vix 

 subdeclivi, postice subrecto, subdeclivi ; latere antico longiore, ro- 

 tundato ; extremitate postica attenuata, subrostata, oblique subbi- 

 angulata; bgamento haud prominente; flexura, ventrab costaque 

 mnbonali conspicuis ; dentibus lateralibus magnis, tequidistantibus. 



Elongated-oblong, depressed, solid, yellowish with reddish crim- 

 son rays or pale pink with deeper concentric bands and paler nar- 

 row rays ; surface roughened in one valve by concentrically arran- 

 ged and frequently connected compressed wart-hke tubercles, which 

 on the disc of the other valve are replaced by concentric elevated 

 sulci; anterior side the longer, rounded; ventral edge arcuated 

 anteriorly and curving upwards to the angulated posterior extre- 

 mity so as to render it subrostrated and attenuated ; slopes gentle, 

 ligament not prominent ; lateral teeth large. 



Corrigidor, Bay of Manilla. 



7. Tellina rastellum (pi. lxiv. f. 231. and pi. lxv. f. 242) 

 Hanleij, Zool. Proc. (April) 1844 ; Hani. Des. Cat. sup. t. xiv. f. 14. 

 T. Plulippii, Anton Ab. und Bes Conch, part v. t. 5. 



T. testa elongata, solida, convexiuscula, sequilaterah, flavida, paUide 

 roseo radiata ; antice sulcata, postice squamosa, squamis erectis, la- 

 mellosis, in iisdem seriebus cum sulcis concentricis, ordinatis ; mar- 

 gine ventrali vix convexiusculo ; dorsali utrinque paululum declivi, 

 antice vix convexiusculo, postice recto ant subincurvato ; latere 

 postico attenuato, subrostrato, ad extremitatem oblique biangulato ; 

 extremitate antica rotundata, ; ligamento costaque umbonah, con- 

 spicuis ; superficie interna albida, umbones versus aurantio utrinque 

 fucata; dentibus lateralibus validis, subBequidistantibus. 



Elongated, solid, moderately convex, equilateral, yellowish with 

 pale crimson rays, the concentric sulci posteriorly so interrupted as 

 to form rows of thin tooth-like scales, and so arranged that the 



