BRACHIOPODA. 73 



substance of the shell is frialtle iind chalky, and the sandstone so loose-grained 

 that internal impressions are not distinctly retained. Should future study of 

 the species prove it generically distinct from 0. chromatica, it will be necessary 

 to accord recognition to the term Dkellomus, which, however, may be held in 

 abeyance until that time. There is a noticeable similarity in the interior of the 

 pedicle-valve of O. politn as shown in fig. 38, to the illustration given by Vol- 

 BORTH of the interior of the corresponding valve in the species Schmidtin cclata* 

 in which all the details represented are the two strong cen- 

 tral scars abutting against a thickened posterior area. The <^^'.!'^!^^'!|i,\ 

 correspondence in internal markings does not appear to ex- 

 tend to the brachiid valves. (See discussion of the genus, 

 ScHMiuTiA ) Attention may also be directed to the Obolus ? 



Kio. .31. Obobisl comjilcxns 



complexus of B.\RRANi>i;,f from the Etage D, apparently a After hauuvnuk. 

 genuine Obolella, in a later fauna than has been elsewhere observed. 



Genus LEPTOBOLUS, Hall. 1871. 



I'LATK III, FIUS. 1-10. 



1S71. Leptoholas, Hall. Desciiptioiis New Species Fossils, p. 3 ; Advance sheets Twenty-fourth Rept. 



N. Y. State Mas. Nat. Hist. 

 1872. Leptoholus, Hall. Twenty-ftmrth Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 226, pL vii, fig-s. 17-20. 

 1875. Leptobolus, Hall and Wuitimeld. Paheontolofry of Ohio, voL ii, p. CP, pi. i, fig?. 10, 11. 



Diagnosis " Shell semiphosphatic, fragile, minute, more or less elliptical, 

 ovate or subcircular, with moderately (or sometimes more extremely) convex 

 valves, which are concentrically marked on the exterior surface. Ventral 

 valve with a distinct pedicle-groove; interior with an elevated subquadrate 

 muscular area. Dorsal valve a little thickened on the cardinal margin, with 

 slightly elevated, trifid muscular impressions," Hall {loc. cit.). 



Type, Leptobolus lepis, Hall, Hudson group, loc. cit., p. 226, pi. vii, figs. 

 19, 20. 

 L. occidens, Hall, Hudson group, loc. cit., p. 227, pi. vii, fig. 18. 

 L. insignis. Hall, Utica slate, loc. cit., p. 227, pi. vii, fig. 17. 



* Verhandl. dei- russ.-kais. Mineral. Gesellst*. zu St. Petei-sb., 2te Sei-., Bd. iv. taf. xvii, fig. 1. 18B8. 

 t Systfeme Siliuien Boheme, vol. v, pi. 152, fig-, ii, 4 ; also, pi. 9.->, fif,'. iii ; pi. HI, «■,'. vi ; pi. 113, fif,'. v. 



