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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL, 57. 



Cat. No. 



Locality. 



Collector. 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



127043 

 124223 

 128261 

 332781 



Japan 



Enoshima, Japan 



Japan 



Japan 



Rolle 



F. Stearns 

 Herman. . 

 Fulton . . . 



Valves mostly of a dark reddish brown, sometimes with a slight 

 touch of green distally. The beaks are rather short. 



LINGULA LEPIDULA A. Adams. 



Lingula lepidula A. Adams, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., eer. 3, vol. 11, p. 101, 1863. — 

 Davidson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 311, pi. 30, fig. 4; Mon. Rec. Brach., 

 pt. 3, p. 220, pi. 28, fig. 16, 1888. 



Type-locality. — Seto Uchi, Akashi, Japan, in 10 fathoms, mud, A. 

 Adams. 



This is a small yellowish-white species which looks externally much 

 like Glottidia albida, but is less solid, and a true Lingula. Doctor 

 Davidson regarded it as possibly the young of a larger species 

 Professor Morse as a distinct form. A much larger series is required 

 to settle all doubt. 



LINGULA REEVII Davidson. 



Lingula reevii Davidson, Challenger Brachiopoda, p. 62, 1880; Mon. Rec. Brach., 



pt. 3, p. 219, pi. 28, figs. 17, 18a, 1888. 

 Lingula ovalis Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1841, p. 100; Conch. Icon. Mon. Lingula, 



pi. 1, fig. 1, 1859. Not of J. Sowerby, Min. Conch., pi. 19, fig. 14, 1813. 



Type locality. — Hawaiian Islands. Pease. 



A thin, brilliantly colored, markedly ovate shell. 

 Genus GLOTTIDIA DaH. 



Glottidia Dall, Amer. Joum. Conch., vol. 6, p. 154, 1870. — Davidson, Mon. Rec. 

 Brach., pt. 3, p. 221, 1888. 



