TEREBRATULA. 
Puate IIT. 
Species 6. (Mus. Cuming.) 
TEREBRATULA (WALDHEIMIA) CRANIUM. Ter. testd 
ovato-globosd, levigatd, flavescente-alba, corned, rostro 
brevi, tumidiusculo, foramine subamplo, imperfecto, 
deltidio aut parvo aut nullo; valvis ambabus tumido- 
convexis, ad marginem paululum contractis ; apophyse 
subelongatd, reflexa. 
Tas skutt WatpueErmta. Shell ovately globose, smooth, 
yellowish-white, horny, beak short, rather swollen, 
foramen rather large, incomplete, deltidium either 
small or none; both valves tumidly convex, a little 
contracted at the margin; loop rather elongated, re- 
flected. 
Terebratula cranium, Miller, Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 209. 
Anomia cranium, Gmelin. 
Terebratula vitrea, Fleming. 
Hab. Norway; Finmark. East of Zetland; Fleming, 
Barlee. 
Dr. Gray quotes dnomia vitrea, Chemnitz, as a synonym 
of this species, incorrectly. 
men, in the ‘ Edinburgh Encyclopedia’ and in his ‘ Phi- 
losophy of Zoology,’ 7. vitrea, but the Anomia vitrea of 
the Conchylien Cabinet is the true vitrea, Sp. 8. 7. cra- 
nium is a Scandinavian species, and is only included in 
the British fauna on the grounds of its discovery, on two 
different occasions, about thirty miles east of Zetland, by 
Dr. Fleming and Mr. Barlee. 
Dr. Fleming named a speci- 
Species 7. (Fig. a, 6, Mus. Cuming.) 
TEREBRATULA (TEREBRATULINA) RADIATA. 
subtrigono-ovatd, gibbosd, versus marginem flexuoso- 
undata, subpellucido-alba, sparsim nigro radiata, rostro 
brevi, foramine amplo, imperfecto, deltidio parvo, vix 
nullo; valvis radiatim dense lineari-sulcatis, sulcis 
irregularibus ; apophyse parva, brevi, haud reflerd. 
RAYED TEREBRATULINA. Shell triangularly ovate, 
gibbous, flexuously waved towards the margin, semi- 
transparent white, sparingly rayed with black, beak 
short, foramen large, incomplete, deltidium small, 
scarcely any; valves densely radiately linearly grooved, 
grooves irregular; loop small, short, not reflected. 
Hab. Strait of Corea ? 
THE 
An interesting species, of the same subgeneric type as 
T. caput-serpentis, flexuously waved towards the margin, 
and rayed in a very characteristic manner with broad pen- 
cils of black. 
mens, all exactly alike, procured, he fancies, from the 
dredgings of Sir E. Belcher in the Strait of Corea. 
Mr. Cuming possesses two or three speci- 
Species 8. (Fig. a, c, Mus. Cuming; Fig. 4, Mus. De 
Burgh.) 
TEREBRATULA VITREA. er. testd subguadrato-globosi, 
tenuiculd, pellucido-albd, vitred, rostro tumido, breviter 
incurvo, foramine parviusculo, deltidio parvo, vi« 
nullo ; valwis ambabus tumido-convexis, levibus aut 
dense concentricé minutissime striatis ; apophyse parva, 
simplici. 
THe GLassy TEREBRATULA. Shell somewhat squarely 
globose, rather thin, transparent-white, glassy, beak 
swollen, shortly incurved, foramen rather small, del- 
tidium small, scarcely any ; both valves tumidly con- 
vex, smooth, or densely concentrically very minutely 
striated; loop small, simple. 
Anomia vitrea, Born, Test. Mus. Ces. p. 119, p. 116. vign. 
Anomia terebratula, Gmelin. 
Terebratula vitrea, Lamarck. 
Anomia terebratula, Dillwyn. 
Terebratula enthyra, Philippi. 
| Hab. Mediterranean (in nullipore mud at a depth of from 
Ter. testa | 
ninety-two to two hundred and fifty fathoms); HE. 
Forbes. Vigo Bay (at a depth of forty fathoms) ; 
M‘Andrew. 
This is the type of Zeredratula proper, and there is only 
one other recent species, 7. wa. They represent, how- 
| ever, a series of more than a hundred fossil species. 
Species 9. (Fig. a, Mus. De Burgh; Fig. 6, Mus. Taylor.) 
TEREBRATULA (WALDHEIMIA) PIcTa. er. testd ovatd, 
obscure tripartitd, anticé et postice subattenuatd, levi- 
gata, sanguineo-aurantid aut flavicante, strigis macu- 
lisque pallidis irregularibus paucis lentiginosd, rostro 
parco, incurvo, foramine mediocri, deltidio perangusto 
concentricé rugato ; valvis subequalibus, medio promi- 
nulis ; apophyse elongata, recurva. 
THE PaINTED WaLDHEIMIA. Shell ovate, obscurely tri- 
partite, anteriorly and posteriorly a little attenuated, 
smooth, blood-stained orange or yellowish, speckled 
November, 1860. 
