﻿446 I.ECUMIN'AIA 



surface with irregular growth Hues; epidermis dull, ashy 

 brown, retldish-brown or }ellowish-green ; left valve with a 

 compressed, smooth, triangular tooth just behind the beak 

 and a rudimentary one in front of it ; right valve with a single 

 tooth in front of the beak ; laterals wanting ; dorsal scars deep, 

 irregular; nacre whitish or flesh-colored, often granulous in 

 the cavity and radially striated on the border. 



Length 90, height 45. diam. 30 mm. 



Length 63. height 37, diam. 22 mm. 



Southern Turkey in Asia. 

 Monocojidylcua mardinensis Lea, Pr. Ac. N. Sci., Phila., VIH, 



1864, p. 286; Jl. Ac. N. Sci., Phila., VL 1869, p. 252, pi. 



XXX, iig. 67; Obs., Xn, 1869, p. 12, fil. XXX, fig. 67. 

 Lcguiiiinaia inardincnsis Conrad, Am. Jl. Conch., L 1865, P- 



233. — KoBELT, Icon., new ed., \'L 1893, p. 92, pi. ckxxvii, 



fig-s. 1 122, 1 123. — Simpson, Syn.. 1900, p. 651. 

 Mar gar on (Monocondyf<va) mardinensis Lea, Syn., 1870, p. 



73- 

 Margaritana mardinensis Clessin, Conch. Cab. Ano., 1876. p. 



266, pi. LXXXIII, figs. I, 2. 

 Leguminaia (mardinensis var.j nacgclci Kobklt, Icon., new 



ed.. XIX. 1912, p. 7, pi. Dxv, fig. 2693. 



Var. chantrei Locard. 



The beaks are a little fuller, the shell is perhaps a little 

 more inflated than the type, and, according- to Locard, the teeth 

 are not so well developed. 



Canal of Orontes and Lake Antioch. 

 Legnminaia chantrei Locard, Arch. Mus. Lyon, III, 1883, p. 



252. pi. XIX bis, figs. 8-10. — KoBELT, Icon., ist suj)., 1895, 



p. 22^, pi. IV, fig. 3. 

 Legumiiiaia inardijioisis var. chantrei Simpson, Syn., 1900, 



p. 651. 

 Monocondyhca chautreyi P.ETici., Conch. Sam., Ill, 1890, p. 



174. 



