248 MOLLUSCA FROM THE CRAG. 
Length, \ inch. Height, # inch. 
Locality. Red Crag, Sutton? 
Mam. Crag, Bramerton. 
Clyde Beds, Bracklesham, Uddevalla. 
Recent, West Gothland, Britain, Mediterranean. 
This is a common shell in the Mammaliferous Crag in the neighbourhood of 
Norwich. The cuneiform variety (cwneata) differs only in so far as to have one 
side a little more produced than is usual in the recent shell. The specimens are 
always more or less deprived of their outer coating; but in those best preserved, the 
ridges upon the dorsal area may be distinctly seen. 
10. Mactra ostrruncata, S. Wood. Tab. XXIV, fig. 5, a, 6. 
Spec. Char. Testa subequilaterali, obtuse triangulari, obtruncatd ; antice angula td ; 
postice truncatd aut rotundatd ; umbonibus subprominentibus ; ared dorsali striata ; dentibus 
lateralibus rugosis. 
Shell slightly inequilateral, obtusely triangular, roundedly truncate ; anterior side 
angular, posterior irregularly rounded; umbones slightly promment; dorsal area 
striated; lateral teeth denticulated. 
Length, % inch, nearly. Hezght, # inch. 
Locality. Cor. Crag, Sutton. 
Red Crag, Sutton. 
This shell is not rare either in the Red or Coralline Crag. It much resembles in 
form the preceding species (JZ. swbtruncata), but differs essentially in being reversed. 
In the living species the angular or produced portion is on the side on which 
the ligament is placed, and where the sinuated mark of the mantle is seen; 
while in this, the anterior side is angulated, though not much produced. It is a 
thick and strong shell, somewhat tumid, with an obtuse ridge on each side, more 
distinctly marked on the anterior, running from the umbo to the ventral margin, 
within which it is slightly flattened. It has long remained in my cabinet, under the 
name of I. subtruncata, imagining it to have been only a reversed variety, like Zrophon 
antiquum, var. contrarium, so common in the Red Crag. There appears, however, a 
difference also in the form and direction of the sinus in the mantle-mark, more than 
might be the result of a difference in the length of the siphonal sides of the two 
shells. 
Mactra striata, Smith, ‘Wern. Trans.,’ vol. viii, pl. 1, fig. 22, much resembles, and 
may probably prove to be, this species, but I have not been able to obtain a specimen 
for comparison ; and judging from the representation, it does not appear to have the 
angular form on the anterior side as in our shell. Messrs. Forbes and Hanley referred 
