GUESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES. 77? 



Fig. 77 A massive blade of black color, the largest specimen in M. 

 Guesde's collection. The general type is common enough in the Antilles, 

 and indeed may be seen almost everywhere. However, the two sides 





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Fig. 77. Fir.. 78. 



are decidedly unlike, the right nearly st raight, the left bulged out ; and 

 by this fact the edge is so modified that the left is continuous with the 

 side, and the right nearly arrested by a corner. 



Length, 16 f^ inches; greatest wadth, 6 inches. 



Fig. 78. A specimen resembling the last described, of light gray-brown 

 color. The butt is not elevated, and its band is emarginated at the sides. 

 Here we may see a little greater modification from the type by the in- 



