TELLINA. TELLER. 
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fine regular transverse raised lines which grow stronger 
towards the sides : color white, with a pale rosy ray down 
the anterior slope; inside white : beaks not quite central, 
pointed : hinge with two primary teeth and lateral laminar 
ones in one valve, one of the teeth cloven ; in the other 
rake a single cloven tooth without lateral ones : length 
five eighths of an inch ; breadth seven eighths. 
A living specimen of this shell was brought to us alive 
from Torbay, and vvc have since seen a few others. 
Its color, teeth, and the want of the longitudinal striae 
distinguish it from T. striata and T. punicea • and it is 
shorter in proportion to its breadth, v. v. 
(j. Tellina striata. Striated Tellen. 
Montagu, pi. 27- f. 2. 
Shell somewhat oval, flat, thin, semitransparent, rounded 
atone end and a little angular at the other, very finely and 
regularly Striate transversely, and longitudinally so in a 
most minute manner, but these latter are probably merely 
veins in the shell: color rosy-white inside and out, darker 
towards the hinge: cartilage slope indented; beaks not 
quite central, small, pointed: hinge with two primary teetli 
and a small lateral one on each side, in both valves: length 
an inch ; breadth about three-quarters. 
Dorsetshire coast: very rare. 
I, /. Tellina tenuis. Thin Tellen . 
Inter, pi. 405. f. 251— Pennant , pi. 51. f. 2— Donovan, 
pi. 19. f. 2 —IVood, pi. 44. f. 3, 4— Dorset Cat. pi. 5. f. 3. 
Shell thin, brittle, glossy, semitransparent, faintly and 
irregularly striate transversely, rounded at one end, some¬ 
what angular and pointed at the other which is a little 
rough: color white, red, yellowish, or variously mixed 
with different shades disposed in transverse bands : beaks 
small, nearly central; hinge with two primary teeth in 
each valve, one of them cloven ; and in one valve only a 
single small lateral tooth connected with the plain one : 
tmtthe teeth arc frequently shed, and not easily to be made 
out: length about half an inch; breadth three-quarters. 
On most sandy shores, v. v. 
o 8. Tellina 
