Pvn H,i I'UitlS

400 TELLINID.E.
with the usual short dusky streaks ; posterior ridge more de-
veloped and conspicuous.
Habitat : Local, but generally diffused, from low-
water mark at spring-tides to a few fathoms, in sand. I
will mention a few of the localities : Cornwall, Devon,
Dorset, Channel Isles, Scarborough, Northumberland
and Durham, Pembrokeshire, Pwllheli (M f
Andrew),
south and west of Ireland, Stranraer in Wigtonshire
(Bedford), west of Scotland, Firth of Forth (Laskey,
Brown, and Collins), Moray Firth (Dawson). Var. 1.
Exmouth (Clark); Kenmare River (J. G. J.). Var. 2.
Bantry Bay (Humphreys). This species has been found
in a fossil state at Belfast by Mr. Grainger, and in the
Coralline Crag by Mr. Searles Wood. Abroad it in-
habits the Scandinavian sea from Finmark to Bohus-
lan, and southwards the coast-line from the North of
France to the Canaries, as well as the European and
African shores of the Mediterranean as far as Sicily and
the iEgean, at depths varying from 7 to 40 fathoms.
Sicilian tertiaries (Philippi).
At Kenmare this kind is eaten, as well as Venus ver-
rucosa ; and heaps of their shells may be seen about the
huts of the peasantry. Twisted distortions now and
then occur. My largest specimen
is one and a half inch
long by two and a half inches broad ; but some collected
by Lilljeborg in Upper Norway are of still greater dimensions.
Muller apparently considered this the Tellina radiata
of Linne ;
and '
Systema
and the descriptions in the '
Naturae '
more detailed particulars given in the '
Fauna Suecica '
are not unsuitable ; but the
Mus. Ulr. Reg/
mention a character which our shell does not possess,
viz. lateral or marginal teeth. Possibly the angular
points of the hinge-plate were meant. The words are,