^ PLATE XXVL 



ANOMIA EPHIPPIUM. 



LARGER OR ONION-PEEL ANOMIA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Valves unequal: one gibbous towards tlic beak, the other 

 flat, and perforated near the hinge. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Roundish : pellucid, much wrinkled. Flat valve perforated. 



Anomia Ephippium ; testa suborbiculata rugosa plicata planiore 

 perforata. Gmel. Lin. Syst. Nat. Concha 

 p. 3340. sp. 3. 



Anomia. Subrotunda plicata pellucida levis, valva planiore perforata. 



Tunica cep:c. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 

 165. fab. W.Jig. 3. 

 Iluitre. Pelure d'oignon. Angenv. Conch. 2. p. 316. tab. 22. 



Jig. C. 11. p. 277. tab. 19. fg. C. 

 The perforated Oyster. Fetiv. Mas. p. S5. No. 823. 

 Anomia Ephippium, larger. Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 70. tab. 6'2. 



