2 Dr. P. P. Carpenter on new Forms of Mollusca 



dm eleganter variegata ; striis increment! concentricis, postice ex- 

 tantioribus ; umbombufl postice flectentibus, obtusis ; |)arte antica 

 prolongata, regulariter excurvata ; marginibus dorsali et ventrali 

 subparallelis, subrectis ; parte postica curtiore, subangulata : intus, 

 dent. card, utraque valva ii. minutis, quorum alter bifidus ; v. 

 dext. dent, lat., ant. curto, satis extante, post, nullo ; nymphis 

 curtis, latis, parum concavis, subito sectis, valvis postea subalatis ; 

 sinu pallii fere cicatr. aiit. tenus porrecto. Long. */2, lat. '42, 

 alt. -15. 



Hab. Neeah Bay (Swan) ; Monterey and Catalina Island, 

 20-60 fathoms, rare (Cooper). 



Submenus MIODON*. 



Testa Lucinoidea, dentibus cardinalibus, ut in Cardita, elongatis ; 

 lateral! antico parvo instructa. 



This little group of species is intermediate in character be- 

 tween Astarte, Venericardia, and Lucina. It first appears in 

 the Great Oolite, where it is represented by Astarte (Miodon} 

 orbicularis, J. Sby. Min. Conch, pi. 444. f. 2/3. This must* not 

 be confounded with a second and true Astarte orbicularis, by the 

 same author, pi. 520. f. 2. It appears in Mr. Searles Wood's 

 Crag-senes as Astarte corbis. The following is the only recen,t 

 species at present known. 



9. Miodon prolonaatus. 



M. testa parva, solida, tumida, compacta, albida; ventraliter antice 

 valde prolongata, excurvata ; lunula longa, rectiore, haud irnpressa; 

 umbonibus antice inflectis, obtusis, valde prominentibus ; margine 

 dorsali postico parum excurvato ; costis radiantibus x.-xii. latis, 

 obtusis, marginem attingentibus, parum expressis, dorsaliter obso- 

 letis, a liris increment! concentricis, plus minusve distantibus, ex- 

 pressis, hie et illic interrupts : intus, margine a costis plus minusve 

 obsoletim crenulato ; cardine dentibus v. dextr., uno postico, inter 

 duas fossas elongato, et lat. ant. lunulari; v.sinistr., dent. ant. trian- 

 gulari, post, valde elongato, lat. ant. minimo, obsolete ; cicatr. add. 

 subrotundatis, ventraliter sitis. Long. '23, lat. '24, alt. -16. 

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Subgenus ADULA, Add. (diagn. auct.). 



Testa 'inter Modiolam et Lithophagum intermedia, cylindracea ; 

 umbonibus obtusis ; parte antica longiore ; ligamento subinterno, 

 valde elongato ; epidermide haud testacea. 



Animal byssiferum, in cryptis affixum ; musculis adductoribus 

 majoribus, antico ovato. 



Constituted by Messrs. Adams for A. soleniformis, D'Orb., 

 which very closely resembles the young of the Vancouver species : 

 enlarged to receive the shells of Lithophagoid shape which are 



* Th. (jifivv, smaller ; o8ovs, tooth. 



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