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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
margin sloping, end truncated, ventral margin obtusely angulated at the 
end; anterior side oblong, ventral margin rounded, dorsal margin sloping, 
umbones small, ligament short, hinge margin thick, with lateral teeth 
short, cardinal teeth small. (Conch. Iconica.) 
Type in Museum Taylor. Type locality, Vancouver Island, British 
Columbia. 
Range. Aleutian Islands to San Pedro, California. 
Tellina meropsis Dali, 1900. 
Proc. U. S. N. M., 23:317; pi. 3, fig. 1. 
Shell small, white, solid, subequilateral, rather swollen, slightly flexed 
behind, with a rather bluntly pointed posterior end; surface finely concen¬ 
trically closely striate, with obscure radial striulations and a papery perios- 
tracum, which sometimes has an iridescent effect and is often dehiscent; 
beaks low and pointed; interior white, sometimes with a pale yellow 
suffusion; hinge normal, the left anterior lateral small but distinct; pallial 
sinus large, separated from the anterior adductor scar only by the feeble 
slightly elevated ray. Length, 15 ; height, 11.5 ; diameter, 6.4 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in U. S. N. M., No. 123410. Type locality, San Diego, California. 
Range. San Diego, California, to the Gulf of California. 
Subgenus Angulus Megerle, 1811. 
Tellina carpenteri Dali, 1900. 
Plate 44, figs. 10a, 10b, and plate 29, fig. 2. 
Brit. Assoc. Rept., E., p. 235. 
A. testa forma A. obtuso simili, sed costa interna omnino carent, valde 
insequilaterali, solidiore, nitente, rosaceo et flavido subtratim eleganter 
variegata; striis incrementi concentricis, postice extantioribus; umbonibus 
postice flectentibus, obtusis; parte antica prolongata regularites excurvata; 
marginibus dorsali et ventrali subparallelis, subrectis; parte postica 
curtiore, subangulata; intus, dent. card, utraque valva ii. minutis, quorum 
alter bifidus; v. dext. dent. lat. ant. curto, satis extante, post nullo; nymphis 
curtis, latis, parum concavis, subito sectis, valvis postea subalatis; sinu 
pallii fere cictr. ant. tenus porrecto. Long. .72; lat. .42; alt. 15. (Car¬ 
penter.) 
Tellina carpenteri was given by Dali as a new name for T. variegata 
Carpenter. I have used Carpenter’s description. 
Type locality, Neah Bay. 
Range. Forrester Island, Alaska, to the Gulf of California. 
