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from below low water mark to a few fathoms, on sand ” — Thompson. Dickie 
dredged it living outside Strangford Lough, in 7-15 fathoms: Hyndman 
records dead specimens only. 
Tellina squalida, Pulteney. 
Not a common species anywhere ; rare in our province, and in a dead state 
only. “Bed Bay, Co. Antrim, Mrs. J. Thomson Tennant ” — Thompson; 
specimens from this locality are in the Belfast Museum. Dredged by Hynd- 
man on the Turbot Bank ; in shallow water in Brown’s Bay, Island Magee ; 
and in 20 fathoms off Black Head ( sub T. incarnata). 
Tellina donaclna, Linne. 
Strangford Lough— Thompson ; whether living or dead not specified. 
Dead in Strangford Lough — Dickie ; and on the Turbot Bank — Hyndman. 
The latter obtained a single live specimen in 20 fathoms, gravel bottom, on 
the Cod Bank, north of Isle of Muck. 
Tellina pusilla, Philippi. 
“ Dead, valves united, from the Turbot Bank sand” — Hyndman, 1859 
Report (sub T. pygmcea). 
Psammobia telllnella, Lamarck. 
Living in Belfast and Strangford Loughs, and the waters adjoining, in 
depths ranging from 7 to 30 fathoms — Thompson, Hyndman, and Dickie. 
Dead valves were dredged in Larne Lough and other places. 
Psammobia costulata, Turton. 
A single valve, found by Jeffreys in Turbot Bank sand which was forwarded 
to him by Hyndman, is the only trace of this species in our province. 
Psammobia Ferroensis, Chemnitz. 
“ Commonly thrown ashore on most sandy beaches. Inhabits below low- 
water mark ” — Thompson. Hyndman and Dickie never seem to have taken 
it alive, but in a dead state it occurred in most of their dredgings. Thrown 
up alive by the tide at Castlerock, Co. Derry, and Cultra, Co. Down — R.L1.P. 
Psammobia vespertina, Chemnitz. 
“From Lame Lough, Co. Antrim, a specimen has been sent me” — 
Thompson. This appears to be the only published note of its occurrence in the 
North of Ireland. I have before me over a dozen single valves, some of them 
quite fresh, which were picked up in about twenty minutes’ search on the 
beach at Cultra, Co. Down ; it evidently lives in some quantity at no great 
distance from that place. 
Bonax vittatus, Pa Costa. 
“ Generally common on extensive sandy beaches. Plentiful close to low 
water mark at Magilligan, where it is collected by the people for food. 
Dredged plentifully, but of small size, on pure sand, at a few fathoms’ 
depth, off Newcastle, Co. Down, Mr. Hyndman and W.T.” — Thompson (sub 
P. trunculus). The dredgings of Hyndman and Dickie, being generally in 
