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to be an important character, inasmuch as it is also wanting to 

 some species of Thracia, although the typical species possesses it. 



Genus LYONSIA, Turton. 

 Brit. Bivalves, 35. 1822. 



Osteodesma, Deshayes, Encyc. Meth., iii. tab. 1830. 



The animal has a closed mantle ; a tongue-shaped, grooved foot, 

 bjssiferous ; very short siphons, which are nearly united, fringed ; 

 large lips and narrow, triangular palpi. 



Distribution, twelve species — all seas. 



1. L. HYALiNA, Conrad. Fig. 301. 



iMya.) Journ. Philad. Acad., vi. 261, t. 11, f. 12. 

 Shell thin, fragile, pellucid, transversely elongated ; anterior 

 side short, rounded ; posterior side produced, compressed, trun- 

 cated, and reflexed at the end; beaks prominent, inclined for- 

 wards ; epidermis dirty-white, membranaceous, concentrically 

 wrinkled and corrugated by radiated lines. 



Vertical diam. 8.7, transverse 15 mill. 



WJwle Coast. 



2. L. ARENOSA, MoUer. Fig. 302. 



{Pandorina.) Ind. Moll. Groenl. 1842. 

 Shell ovate-quadrate, ventricose, opaque-white ; beaks anterior ; 

 epidermis finely radiately ridged, with frequently adhering parti- 

 cles of fine sand. 



Height 1.5, length 12.5 mill. 



New England, northicards. 



Distinguished from L. hyalina \iy its smaller size and quadrate 

 form. 



Genus THRACIA, Leach. 

 Blainv., Diet. So. Nat., xxxii. 347. 1824. 



The mantle of the animal is closed; foot linguiform; siphons 

 rather long, separate, with fringed orifices ; gills single, thick, 

 plaited ; palpi narrow, pointed. 



About twenty species have been described, from northern and 

 temperate zones, and ranging from 4 to 110 fathoms. 



1. T. coNRADi, Couthouy. Figs. 308, 309. 

 Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., ii. 153, t. 4, f. 2. 

 T. declivis, Conrad (not Pennant). Am. Mar. Conch. 44, t. 9, f. 2. 

 T. inflata, J. Sowerby. 1845. (Teste Jeffreys.) 



Shell thin, ventricose, rounded in front, narrowed and subtrun- 



