136 

 CYPRIS Faba ? 

 TAB. CCCCLXXXV. 



Spec. Char. Shells oblong-ovate^ convex, slight- 

 ly sinuated in the front, one folded over the 

 other, minutely punctated. 



Syn. Cypris feve, Cypris Faba, Desmaret, Nouv. 

 Bull, des Sciences, annee 1813, jo. 259. pi. 4. 

 no. 8. Hist. nat. des Crustacis fossiles, 141. 

 t. 11./ 8. Dr. Fitton " On the strata below the 

 chalky" &c. Annals of Phil, new series, 8. 

 365, &c. 



In length about one tenth of an inch, and about half as 

 wide ; one end (the superior ?) is rather broader and 

 blunter than the other ; the front is nearly straight, a 

 very slight sinus being formed by the folding of one valve 

 over the other ; at one extremity of this fold there is a 

 small projection, like the radicle in a bean ; the back 

 is rounded with a longitudinal furrow separating the 

 valves ; the surface is minutely punctated, the substance 

 rather coriaceous, but brittle and very thin. 



This minute fossil is mentioned in the description of 

 Tab. 31, as occurring in the Petworth marble ; but as it 



