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rated lateral ones, projecting above the margin ; from the 
apex a furrow runs on the inner-side of the posterior la- 
teral tooth, in which the connecting cartilage is fixed: color 
yellowish-white. Inside smooth, glossy yellow: the tongue 
?cicatrix to which the animal is affixed, is broad, and 
nas into the middle of the shell ; margin plain, beneath, 
which is a depressed punctured line, parallel with the outer 
edge, not very conspicuous in younger shells. Length an 
iack and a quarter; breadth something more.” 
Gindin has also observed, that the transverse stride are 
mossed by longitudinal ribs ; that behind the beaks is a 
T*ry short heart-shaped depression 5 and that the lateral 
teeth are single. 
From the Dorsetshire coast. 
) 19. Tellina Radula. Rasp TeTlen * 
Mcntagu, pi. 2. f. 1, 2— Wood , pi. 42. f. 4, 5. 
Venus borealis. Donovan, pi. 130. 
Shell nearly orbicular, white covered with a pale brown 
db, rough with close-set concentric ridges ; the posterior 
! ipe indented under the beaks, with a small oblong heart- 
^aped depression; the cartilage margin running nearly 
rtraight from the hinge, along which is a slight furrow in 
i.:h valve; inside chalky white, of a clearer color round 
-hemargin, where it is marked with longitudinal wrinkled 
lines: beaks central, pointed, turning towards the posterior 
iiue: hinge with two teeth in each valve, one of them 
■liven, and without lateral ones : diameter an inch and a 
Uf. 
Western coasts, Dublin bay, and Cove. v. v< 
3). Tellina fausta. Obsolete Telleru 
I'm, Trans, viii. pi. 1. f. 8 —Donovan , pi. 98 —Dorset 
fH.pl. 5. f. 5. 
Shell nearly orbicular, somewhat compressed, semitrans- 
".reat, white, minutely and obscurely striate concentrically, 
vpmgrauch at the sides which give the beaks a very pro- 
-ri appearance, with a flexure at the posterior s de from 
■e beaks to the margin: beaks small, nearly central, not 
: dining to either side; inside smooth, white : hinge with 
- of the teeth in each valve cloven ; lateral teeth strong, 
that 
