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3, A.—D. p. 52.— TF. t. 2. /. 29. Suboval, thick, covered with 

 tubercular knobs uniting into waved masses near the margin ; 

 cuticle bottle green, umbones decorticated ; nacre pearly white, 

 hinge with a clumsy strong crenated tooth ; scars deep, crenated. 2. 



U. Irroratus. Lea. on U. 1. p. 11. t. 5. J'. 5- — Tr. Am. 

 Ph.3.t.5. — Eaton. — Verrucosus Albus. Hildr. Suborbicular, 

 longitudinal, inequilateral, extremely thick and swollen, dorsal edge 

 rounded; ventral rounded and slightly emarginated : beaks some- 

 what elevated, recurved, decorticated ; cuticle really yellow but so 

 covered with dark green radiating spotted lines as to appear olive ; 

 discs transversely and deeply wrinkled, with a slight radiating 

 furrow ; tubercles slightly raised numerous and generally seated 

 on the wrinkles : nacre pearly white and silvery : termination of 

 the lateral tooth abrupt. 1^^ • • If- — Oliio. 



U. Dromas. Lea. Trans. Am. Ph 5. t. 10. /. 29. Subtri- 

 angularly suborbicular, suboblique, gibbous, very thick, very short 

 posteriorly ; irregularly and transversely folded at the stages of 

 growth, an oblique furrow before the umbonal slope ; beaks thick 

 and elevated, hgament short and dark, umbones with a gibbosity ; 

 cuticle yellow with numerous dark green dotted rays and posteriorly 

 with about six rather broad ones, nacre pearly white : cardinal 

 teeth wide, the lateral short and thick. 1^ . . 1^%. — Tennessee. 



U. ^sopus. Green. Cant, of Mac. Ly. 1827. t. 3.— U. 

 Cicatricosus. Conr. (not Say.) — U. Varicosus, Conr. {jiot 

 Lea.) Ovate, compressed attenuated and obtusely angular anteriorly, 

 rounded and short posteriorly, ventral edge anteriorly sinuous : 

 transversely striated and wrinkled on the disc ; beaks decorticated 

 and not prominent ; a neai-ly central radiating gibbosity or 

 nodulous ridge produced by the strise at that point becoming thick 

 and tuberculated : cuticle glossy, tawny (in the young spotted 

 and rayed with brown) nacre white and pearly : teeth thick and 

 striated. — N. America. 



U. Varicosus. Lea. on U. \.p. 100. t. 11. /. 20. — Cicatri- 

 cosus 1 Say. Subelliptical, oblique, thick, anteriorly compressed, 

 varicose, with transverse concentric elevations ; beaks nearly terminal, 

 elevated, incurved ; ligament long and large ; cuticle reddish 

 l)rown, nacre pearly white : cardinal teeth rather small, the lateral 

 long large and nearly straight. 3 . .4i. — Ohio. 



U.Perplexus. Lea. on U.l.p. 122. t. \7 .f. A2.—Tr. Am. 

 Ph. 4. t. 7 .f. 42. — GiBBOsus. Conr. Ovate, oblique, inequilateral, 

 thick, having an iiTegular nodulous line near the middle which 

 stretches obliquely from the beaks to the ventral margin : umbonal 

 slope irregularly wrinkled, posteriorly to which is a wide slightly 

 impressed furrow ; beaks prominent rounded and close to the 

 posterior end : ligament slender and rather long : cuticle smooth 

 shining, yellowish, with numerous small crowded green rays cover- 



