44 DESCRIPTION OF NEW 



Hab. Para, South America, Mr. C. M. Wheatley. 

 My cabinet and cabinet of Mr. Wheatley. 

 Diam. .8, Length 1.1, Breadth 2.2 inches. 



Shell smooth, transverse, rather inflated, gibbous, very inequilateral, angular behind, 

 irregularly rounded before, slightly compressed near to the anterior margin and straight 

 on the dorsal line; substance of the shell thick; beaks swollen, a little elevated and placed 

 near to the anterior margin ; ligament very long and very thin, scarcely protruding above 

 the dorsal line; epidermis cinnamon-red, reddish-brown along the margin, totally without 

 rays, the lines of growth approximate; posterior slope very long, rather wide, somewhat 

 compressed, with a thin, coloured, elevated hair-like line passing from the beaks to the 

 posterior margin; uinbonial slope elevated and rounded; anterior cicatrices distinct, the 

 smaller one very minute; posterior cicatrices confluent; no visible dorsal cicatrices; pal- 

 leal cicatrices slightly impressed; cavity of shell rather shallow; cavity of the beaks rather 

 shallow and subangular; nacre with minute striae from the beaks towards the margin, 

 of a beautiful light salmon colour, and magnificently iridescent. 



Remarks. — Of this beautiful South American Anodonla, I have but a single specimen 

 before me. It differs from any of the species described by Spix or D'Orbigny, and is 

 altogether a very remarkable species. It is a stout shell, with a nacre which is softer, 

 richer and more satin-like than in any I have ever seen. The nacre is a light salmon 

 colour, with a tint of purple, which gives the most surprising softness and brilliancy to it. 

 The margin is dark, but the nacre immediately in contact with it gives a line of fine blue 

 and green. The triangular fosset at the end of the ligament, common to the South 

 American species, is very marked in this. 



I owe this and many other fine sheHs of this family to my friend Mr. Wheatley, and I 

 dedicate this beautiful one to him. 



Anodonta Shaefferiana. pi. XXVI. Fig. 50. 



Testa Isevi, oblonga, injlata, insequilaferali, postice angulata; valvulis subcrassis; nalibus prominentibun, 

 ad apices unchihili.s- ; ephlermide castaneii, nitida, obsolete radiatii; margaritd salmonis colore tinctti. 



Shell smooth, oblong, inflated, inequilateral, angular behind; valves rather thick; beaks somewhat prominent, 

 undulated at the beaks; epidermis shining, chestnut-coloured and obsoletely rayed; nacre salmon coloured. 



Hab. Horn Lake Creek, Tenn,, Mr. Shaeffer. 



My cabinet and cabinet of Mr. Shaeffer. 

 Diam. 1.2, Length 1.7, Breadth 2.8 inches. 



Shell smooth, oblong, inflated, inequilateral, angular behind, rounded before; dorsal 

 line under the beak, interrupted by a double, tuberculous callus; substance of the shell 

 thick; beaks someAvhat prominent, submcdial, coarsely undulated at the tip; ligament 

 rather short and thick; epidermis shining, chestnut coloured, obsoletely rayed, with dis- 

 tinct distant marks of growth; posterior slope broad and somewhat flattened; umbonial 

 slope angular from beak to margin; anterior cicatrices confluent; posterior cicatrices con- 

 fluent; dorsal cicatrices placed above the cavity of the beaks and partly on the tuberculate 

 swellings; palleal cicatrix slightly impressed; cavity of the shell deep and broad; cavity 

 of the beaks deep and subangular; nacre salmon-coloured and brilliant. 



