CLASS PELECYPODA 
169 
Tellina lutea Gray, 1828. 
Plate 1, fig. 9. 
Index Test. Suppl.; pi. 1. Conch. Iconica,, 17; sp. 97; pi. 19, figs. 97, a, b. 
Shell ovate-subtrigonal, oblong, subequilateral, smooth, covered with a 
subolivaceous shining epidermis, rather pinkish orange within; posterior 
side slightly flexuous, obliquely angular, dorsal margin sloping, ligament 
long, large; anterior side with the dorsal margin sloped, ventral margin 
straight. (Conch. Iconica.) 
Type in Museum Taylor. Type locality, Icy Cape. 
Range. Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and East Cook 
Inlet, Alaska. 
Tellina lutea venulosa Schrenk, 1861. 
Plate 1, fig. 11. 
Bull. Imp. Akad. Sci. St. Petersburg, 4, p. 412. Reise in Amurl, pi. 22, figs. 2-5. 
Shell elongate, subequilateral, covered with a thin shining brown 
epidermis. Color of the interior as in T. lutea, posterior side flexuous, 
obliquely angular. Ligament long, heavy, external. Shell differs from 
T. lutea, in being much narrower and more pointed at the posterior end. 
Type in Acad. St. Petersburg. Type locality, Arctic Ocean. 
Range. Shumagin Islands, Alaska, to Sakhalin, Japan. 
Genus METIS H. & A. Adams, 1856. 
Shell suborbicular, compressed, valves sillonated, posterior flexuosity 
submedian; no lateral teeth. (Tryon. S. S. Conch.) 
Type. Tellina meyeri Dunker. 
Distribution. Pacific Coast. 
Range in time. Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene. 
Metis alta Conrad, 1837. 
Plate 57, fig. 3. 
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, 7:258. Thes. Conch., Tellina; pi. 62, fig. 200. 
Shell suboval, approaching to suborbicular, slightly ventricose, rather 
rough and unpolished with distinct prominent lines of growth; anterior 
extremity obtusely rounded; posterior side of the deeper valve biangulated; 
the opposite valve with an angular groove; margin broad, direct, slightly 
emarginate at the extremity, inferiorly; beaks central; color white tinged 
with yellow; cardinal plate broad; teeth long and prominent. Length, 1^4 \ 
height, \ l / 2 inch. (Conrad.) 
Type locality, Santa Barbara, California. 
Range. Santa Barbara to San Diego, California. In the Miocene at 
Monterey; Pliocene at Santa Barbara, San Fernando and San Pedro; 
Pleistocene at San Pedro and San Diego, California. 
