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ears unequal ; sinus in the right ear of the lower valve mode 

 rately deep; surface of ears covered by small radiating ribs and 

 fine imbricating lines of growth; surface of valves ornamented 

 by about eight broad, flat, subnodose ribs, arranged in pairs, and 

 a few small linear ribs on the side; besides the ribs, the whole 

 surface is covered by small radiating lines, and crossed by very 

 irregular lines of growth, and very fine imbricating concentric 

 lines. 



Figure, natural size. 

 Locality : With the preceding. 



OSTEEA, Linn. 



O. BOURGEOISII. 



PL 11, Fig. 57, 57 a. 



(O. Bourgeoisie, Esmond; Proc. Cal. Acad., 1863, p. 13.) 



SHELL thin, irregularly oval, compressed and contorted near 

 the beaks. Surface marked by a few irregularly squamose lines 

 and faint radiating ridges. Hinge long oblique; ligament pit 

 deep ; muscular scar large, not very strongly marked. 



Figures, natural size. 



Locality and position: Near Kirker's Pass, Contra Costa County; from the 

 Pliocene. 



O. ATWOODII, n. a. 



PI. 10, Fig. 58, 58 o, and PI. 11, Fig. 586. 



SHELL broad, irregular, thin; partly attached, sometimes by 

 nearly the whole of the lower surface; free surface of lower 

 valve marked by numerous irregular radiating ribs crossed by 

 lines of growth; upper valves more squamose and not radiated 

 (in the only specimen I have seen). Hinge broad at the base, 



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