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15. Tellina Laskeyi. Laskeys Tellen. 
Montagu, pi. 28. f. 3. 
Ml oval-oblong, smooth, rounded at one end and ob-* 
t pointed at the other: color purplish-white, darker 
uvaids the hinge, more or less clouded with purple in the 
skldle, covered when fresh with an olive yellow skin ; in¬ 
ode white round the margin, and channelled from the teeth 
ilinost to the end of the longer side: hinge with a single 
primary' tooth in one valve, and two approximate slightly 
cloven ones in the other: length half an' inch ; breadth 
three-quarters. 
lathe Firth of Forth, discovered by Captain Laskey $ 
and is exceedingly rare. 
C. More or less orbicular , 16 to 32. 
16. Tellina maculata. Spotted Tellen. Fig. 13. 
Shell oblong inclining to orbicular, thin, brittle, whitish 
covered with numerous irregular dull brown spots and 
blotches, strongly and regularly striate transversely, and 
crossed by extremely fine longitudinal lines in the inter¬ 
stices, which however do not cut the concentric rounded 
<‘me, well rounded at both the sides, the anterior end a 
very little produced and narrower; both valves equal: 
beaks a little prominent, not quite central; inside yellowish- 
white, polished, with a plain margin: hinge with two teeth 
in each valve and a remote lateral one, the middle tooth 
cloven: length about an inch ; breadth au inch and a quarter. 
This is most probably the T. maculata, so imperfectly de- 
Kiibedby Mr. Adams, in the third volume of the Linnean 
Trinsactions. We found it, in a perfect state, at Bantry bay: 
rare. v.m. 
♦ 1/. Tellina crassa. Thick Tellen. 
liter, pi. 299. f. 136 —Da Costa, pi. 13. f. 4, right hand 
figure— Pennant, pi. 51. f. 1— Wood, pi. 40. f. 1 —Dorset 
Cat. pi. ]. f. 4. 
Tellina rigida. Donovan, pi. 103. 
Shell somewhat orbicular, a little produced at one end 
and generally slightly irregular in its outline, flattish, with 
one of the valves more convex than the other, marked with 
q 3 numerous 
