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Hutton of the Lower Miocene, New Zealand. It is apparently 

 rare. 



Venus Allporti n.s., F. testa ovata, obllqua, anterius angu- 

 lata, suhdepressa, tenuissime striata, alhicla, lamellis transversis, 

 subd [stantibus, ajypendiculatis. Long., 29. Lat., 19. 



V. shell ovate, oblique anteriorly, annulate, subdepressed, 

 slenderly striate, white, with transverse subdistant appendi- 

 culate lamellae. 



This shell which very closely resembles V- lamellata var. suh' 

 depressa of Lamarck (1st edit. Hist, des Moll. Vol. 1, p. 349). 

 It is, however, a smaller shell and more irregular in the lamella 

 and not striate on the anterior side of the same. There is 

 but one specimen of this fossil in the Museum, and that very 

 much damaged. It is possible that a larger suite of specimens 

 may show it to be identical with the living form whose habitat 

 is Tasmaua. 



