﻿440 GABII.I.OTIA 



Kobelt, (1. c. ) unites all of liourguij^nat's species under the 

 name of letoiinicuxi and considers them to be only a variety 

 of Anodonta pisciiialis. He fii^^ures all four species from the 

 orij^inal types. 



Genus GAHILLOTIA Servain, 1890. 



Cabillotia Servain, Bull. Soc. Mai. Fr., VII, 1890, p. 296. 



Shell large, siibsolid, subcompressed, more or less rhomboid, 

 gaping behind ; beaks low, with line, broken, concentric sculp- 

 ture ; epidermis shining; teeth rudimentary, one in each valve, 

 sometimes rather sharp pointed and flattened ; hinge with oc- 

 casional vestiges of laterals ; epidermal matter mingled with 

 the nacre on the hinge ; nacre brilliant, often finely radially 

 ridged, especially at the pallial line. 



.\nimal unknown. 



Type, Anodonta psciidodopsis Locard. 



GAFiiLi.oTiA psii;uDoiX)PSis (Locard). 



Shell large, almost evenly elliptical, thin but strong, sub- 

 compressed, most inflated in the middle and wedge-shaped 

 from this point toward each end ; beaks but slightly elevated, 

 their sculpture consisting of numerous irregular, undulating 

 bars ; epidermis smooth, shining, grayish-yellow, brighter in 

 the umbonal region, feebly, concentrically brown-banded, with 

 three dark rays on the posterior slope ; nacre bright, bluish- 

 white. 



Length 125-130, height 82-84. diam. 40-41.5 mm. 



Syria. 

 Anodonta psciidodopsis Locard, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, 



III, 1883, p. 255. pi. XIX bis., figs. 1-3. 

 Anodonta pscndodontopsis Crosse, Jl. de Conch., xxxi, 1883, 



p. 187. 

 (Jahillotia hsciidodopsis Servain, Bull. Soc. Mai. Fr.. VIT. 



1890, p. 296. fig. — Simpson, Syn., 1900, p. 650. — Kohelt, 



Icon., new ed., XVIIT, 1912, p. 33. pi. xnvi, fig. 2638. 



A fine species, which differs from other members of the 

 group in being almost exactly elliptical. 



