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length ; the umbones are scarcely recurved, acute, contiguous ; 

 the area is large, flattened, forming a considerable angle with 

 the other portion of the shell ; it has numerous fine longitudinal 

 plications faintly traced, there is no median carina, and the inner 

 carina is very small ; the marginal carina is acute, elevated and 

 finely serrated ; the other surface has numerous closely arranged 

 longitudinal costae, which are united to the marginal carina. 



The large number of costae and the characters of the area in- 

 duce me to regard this as the adult condition of the species, 

 notwithstanding the small dimensions. 



A single specimen is my authority ; it is from the bed of hard 

 pale calcareous mudstone, a local deposit which in the Nailsworth 

 valley replaces the bed of Oolite marl and abounds with Nerinaa. 



Trigonia costatula, Lycett. PI. IX. fig. 5. 

 Trigonia costatula, Lycett in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1850, p. 421. 



Shell subtrigonal, convex; umbones mesial, not prominent nor 

 recurved, anterior side produced and rounded, posterior side 

 truncated; area flattened, finely striated transversely, divided 

 longitudinally into two equal portions by a groove and bounded 

 by two low carinae ; the marginal carina is imperfectly serrated, 

 it is of moderate size and but little curved ; the inner carina is 

 nearly smooth ; the space between the inner carinse is smooth and 

 very narrow or lanceolate; the costae are numerous (about 21), 

 moderately prominent and closely arranged ; they are but little 

 curved, are separated from the marginal carina by a plain sur- 

 face, their direction being nearly horizontal or conformable to 

 the inferior border. In the ultimate stage of growth the costae 

 posteriorly are broken more or less into several portions, which, 

 however, continue to follow the general direction of the costae. 

 In the immature form the costae are not separated from the 

 marginal carina, and the area is traversed transversely by an equal 

 number of prominent plications ; but these gradually vanish, and 

 the costae become disunited from the carina, which then becomes 

 serrated. The truncation at the posterior extremity is so consi- 

 derable that the breadth of the area at that part is equal to half 

 the entire length of the shell, or to three-fifths of the height ; 

 the length of the marginal carina is 20 lines. 



The upper portion of the middle division of the Inferior Oolite 

 has furnished the few specimens which have been procured ; the 

 locality is Scar Hill near Nailsworth. 



Trigonia exigua, Lycett, n. sp. PL IX. fig. 3. 

 Shell small, subtrigonal, depressed ; umbones mesial, not re- 

 curved, anterior border nearly straight, oblique, posterior border 



