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family liniidae. 

 Genus LI^'A (Brnguidre ) 3uvler. 

 Subgenus lima s. s . 

 Section licia s. s, 

 IIlvIA (LILIA) SrEiTOOOS'JATA n. sp. 



Jeeoripvion .- Shell small, liiin, moderatelj/ inflate'^ , de- 

 cidedly ineq;iilateral and oblique; gently rounded anteriorly, 

 posteriorly obliquely produced belo"-, emarginated above; exterior 

 surface scul'n-^ -•^^'^d with twent^"-four verj lav; and narrow radials, 

 separated by much broader interspaces; the radials relatively 

 v/idest and most prominent in the umbonal region, toward the ven- 

 tral mar:- in becoming sharper end occasionally bearing short,, nar- 

 row, scales at irregular internals or roughened by irregular incre- 

 mental lines on the '"'Is'^al third of the shell; posterior submar- 

 gin relatively wide, long and vex^^ deeply impressed; anterior 

 submar."-in much smaller and less deeply impressed; auricles small, 

 subeoual, not differentiated from the snbm.ar^ins; both auricles 

 and submargins sculpture l with irregular concentric lines and in- 

 distinct radials; car-linal area wide; ligr^ment pit large, deep, 

 subiunbonel and vertical in oosition, e' tending into the cavity 

 of the shell i internal ventral nar^in scarcely affecte-i hy the 

 external radials. 



Dimensions .- !Iax. I'^t., 10.5 "-;m. ; max. alt., 1*^ v.m.; semi- 



