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Genus LlilAEA Qroyfn. /'*' 



IIKAEA SOLI DA Dall. 



Limaea solida Dall, 1803, Trans. Wagner Pree Inst. Gei., ■Philadel- 

 phia, vol. 7-, pt. 4, p. 769, pi. --5, fi?s. 1, 5. 



Des print ion .- "Shell minute^ solid, rotmdei triangnlar, 

 with about twelve rounded, , strong, slightly granular racial rihs, 

 separated by narrower interspaces crossed bj; lines ~f growth; 

 subraarrins r/ithout radial sculpture; hinge-line short, ^vith a 

 small central "oit, on each side of -vvhioh are a':>out eight teeth; 

 interior redial]^^ feeblj" grooved, the basal raargin crenulate-^. bj- 

 the ribs; shell moderately inflate"?. Alt. 5.5, lat. 3.^, -liam. 

 2.5 mm." 



"This little shell is related to the I. Bronniana Dall fl) of 

 recent faii.na, but is distixiguishe'l from it by its narrower and 



(1). Bull. .:.^s. Gorapt. Zool., Harvard, vol. 12, -np. 226-227; 18';^5; 

 Proo. U. S. IJat. Mus . , vol. 12, o. 251, nl. 14, fig. 9, 

 1889. 



more solid hinge, v:ith o distinctly smaller resiliary -^it and 

 " eavi-r and more solid shell." (Dall, 1808). 

 Type locality .- 3ov/den, Jcraaica. 



