TELLINA. TELLEN. 
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8. Tellina Fabula. Single obliqxie Tellen. 
Donovan, pi. 97— Wood, pi. 45. f. 4— Dorset Cat. pi. 12. 
f. 3, and 3. a. 
Shell oval, thin, glossy white, often reddish or yellowish 
towards the hinge, transparent, sometimes reflecting iri¬ 
descent colors, much produced at the anterior end to a 
point' which is a little turned up ; one of the valves quit£ 
smooth, the other marked with very fine oblique longitu¬ 
dinal strke: hinge lateral, with three teeth in one valve 
and two in the other: length sometimes half an inch ; 
breadth more than three-quarters. 
Mr. Dillwyn, as is not unfrequent with him, has inverted 
the length and the breadth of this shell. 
On most sandy coasts, v. v. 
9. Tellina similis. Double oblique Tellen. 
Soicerby, Brit. Miscall, pi. 75. 
Shell much resembling the last, but both the valves are 
obliquely striate longitudinally over five-sixths of the sur¬ 
face, leaving a small portion of each valve quite smooth : 
the smaller end is also not so much produced, more rounded, 
and not in the least turning upwards : length about a 
quarter of an inch ; breadth half an inch. 
Independently of the difference in the stria3, we cannot 
but think, with Mr. Sowerby, that the more rounded ter¬ 
mination of the smaller end, and more especially the want 
of the flexure upwaids, a character always present in T. Fa¬ 
bula, entitle it to specific distinction. 
Found near Brighton: very rare. v. 
10. Tellina Donacina. Wedge-shaped Tellen. 
Montagu, pi. 27. f. 3— Linn. Trans, vi'i. pi. 1. f. 7— 
Wood, pi. 45. f. 5— Dorset Cat. pi. 12. f. 3. b. 
Shell oval, thin, glossy, semitransparent, finely striate 
transversely, rounded and a little dilated at one end, ab¬ 
ruptly sloping and obliquely truncate at the other which is 
a little ilexuous and turned up at the lower angle : color 
yellowish-white with red longitudinal ravs irregularly dis¬ 
posed, and which sometimes appear in’ chain-like rows'; 
inside glossy yellowish white, with faint appearances of 
the 
