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foot. N. mirahilis, Adams, from Japan, is sculptured like the 

 extinct N. Cohboldice. 



Distribution, 70 species. United States, Norway, Cape, 

 Japan, Sitka, Chili. On coarse bottoms, from 5 — 100 fathoms. 



i^os-si7, 177 species. Lower Silurian ? — . Trias — . America, 

 Europe, India. 



Sub-genera. NucuUna, D'Orb.* 1847. N. miliaris, PL XYII., 

 Fig. 19. Shell minute ; teeth few, in one series, with a posterior 

 lateral tooth. Eocene, France. Nucinella (ovalis), Searles- 

 Wood, 1850 (— Pleiu'odon, "Wood, 1840), a minute shell from 

 the Coralline crag of Suffolk, is described as having an external 

 ligament. 



? Stalagmium (margaritaceum), Conrad, 1833=Myoparo cos- 

 tatus, Jjea. Eocene, Alabama. ? S.Nystii, Galeotti (Nucunella, 

 D'Orb.). Eocene, Belgium. Shell like Limopsis ; ligamental 

 area narrow, wholly posterior. 



IsoAECA, Miinster, 1842. 



Type, I. subspii-ata, M. Oxford Clay, France, Germany. 



Synonyin, Noetia, Gray. 



Shell ventricose ; beaks large, anterior, often sub- spiral ; 

 ligament entirely external ; hinge-line curved, with two series 

 of transverse teeth, smallest in the centre ; pallial line simj^le. 



/. Logani (Ctenodonta), Salter, Lower Silurian, Canada, is 

 3 inches long, and has the ligament preserved. 



Fossil, 14 species. Lower Siluiian — Chalk. North America. 

 Europe. 



Sub-genera. Cucullella, M'Coy. C. antiqua, Sby. Upper 

 Silurian, Herefordshire. Shell elliptical, with a strong rib 

 behind the anterior adductor impression. 



Lunularca, Gray. Part anterior to the umbo toothless, with 

 a lunule. 



Leda, Schumacher. 



Etymology, Leda, in Greek mythology, mother of Castor and 

 Pollux. 



Synonym, Lembulus (Leach) Risso. 



Example, L. caudata, PI. XVII., Fig. 20. 



Shell resembling Nucula ; oblong, rounded in front, pro lured 

 and pointed behind ; margins even ; pallial line with a s nail 

 sinus ; umbonal area with a linear impression joining the a ite- 

 rior adductor. 



Animal furnished with two partiaUy-united, slender, unequ il, 



* N. donaciformis, Parreyss, from the White Nile, is a cnistaceau ! (Estlieria.) 



