MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA. 



concentrically striated. Dorsal valve with a longitudinal 

 septum ; upper part of the ventral valve with, a deep sub- 

 triangular muscular impression which unites with the rostral 

 cavity. 



The species of this genus are Meristce without the peculiar 

 appendage of the ventral valve. 



Distribution, 17 species. Silurian — Devonian. Europe, North 

 America. 



The forms marked by plications on the mesial fold and sinus, 

 and sometimes with obscure or distinct plications on the lateral 

 portions of the shell, constitute the genus Leiorhynchus, Hall. 

 4 species. Devonian. United States. 



Charioxella, Billings, 1861. 



1861, 



Synonym, Cryptonella, Hall, 



Type, Athyris scitula. 



Shell resembling Athyris, but more elongate-ovate or ap- 

 proaching to Terebratula in form. Internal spires as in Athyris 

 and Meristc. , but the dorsal hinge-plate is either obsolete along 

 the middle, or anchylosed to the bottom of the valve. Foramen 

 terminal, bounded on the lower side by one or two deltidial 

 pieces, or by a portion of the shell. The mesial septum in the 

 dorsal valve is either absent or rudimentary. 



Distribution, 15 species. Devonian. America, Spain. 



Ntjcleospiea, Hall, 1859. 



Etymology, nucleus, and spira. 



Types, Spirifer pisum, Sowerby ; Nucleospira ventricosa, 

 Hall, Figs. 21, 22, 23. 



r:g. 2i. 



Fig. 22. 

 Nucleospira venftneosa. 



Fig 23. 



Fig. 21, interior of the dorsal valve. Fig. 22, interior of the ventral valve. Fig. 23, 



interior of the dorsal valve, with a portion of the ventral valve attached. 

 /, cardinal process ; c c, crural processes ; b b, dental pockets ; r, muscular impres- 

 sions ; s, medio-longitudinal septum; 1 1, teeth; 2, a flattened space or false area 

 beneath the beak. (Hall.) 



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