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polished; interior chalky, with a sliallow but distinct pallial sinus; hinge with 

 about nine anterior and ten or eleven posterior teeth between wiiich the minute 

 resilium is set apparently directly on the edge of the valve, no pit or chondro- 

 phore being visible under a lens. Length of shell, 5.0 ; of anterior end, 2.5 ; 

 alt. 3.2; max. diam. 2.5 mm. 



U. S. S. "Albatross," station 2792, in 401 fathoms, mud, off Manta, Ecuador, 

 bottom temperature 42°.9 F. U. S. N. Mus. 122,756. 



Yoldia (Yoldiella) granula Dall, n. sp. 



Shell minute, oval, equilateral, moderately tumid, smooth, covered with a 

 polished straw-colored periostracum ; interior porcellanous, with a very slight 

 pallial sinus and smooth margins ; hinge line with about six teeth on either side 

 of a well-developed resilium, the most anterior tooth of all a little more distant 

 and notably larger than any of the others. Length, 1.7; alt. 1.2; max. diam. 

 1.0 mm. 



U. S. S. "Albatross," station 2778, in Magellan Straits, in 61 fathoms, bottom 

 temperature 47°.9 F. U. S. N. Mus. 110,693. 



Only a single valve was obtained of this very minute species, but the solidity 

 of the specimen indicates that it is not the fry of one of the above described 

 larger species. 



Yoldia (Yoldiella) dicella Dall, n. ep. 



Shell small, solid, chalky-white, covered by a dark olive dull periostracum, 

 slightly inequilateral, with low, adjacent beaks ; of oval form, and with neither 

 luuule nor escutcheon ; anterior end broadly rounded, posterior narrower and 

 longer, but also rounded, base evenly arcuate ; surface nearly smooth at the um- 

 bones, but feebly concentrically striated on the disk, especially the lower part of it ; 

 without any radial sculpture ; interior chalky-white, the margins entire, the mus- 

 cular scars distinct, the pallial line with a shallow, hardly angular sinus ; hinge 

 line with about ten anterior and fifteen posterior small crowded teeth, separated by a 

 deep pit occupied by the entirely internal resilium. Lon. of shell, 6; of beaks 

 behind the anterior end, 3 ; alt. 4 ; diam. 3 mm. 



U. S. S. " Albatross," station 3418, off Acapulco, Mexico, in GOO fathoms, sand, 

 bottom temperature 89° F. U. S. N. Mus. 122,917- 



This little spade-shaped species is clearly distinct from any of the others con- 

 sidered in this paper. 



Yoldia (Yoldiella) leonilda Dall, n. sp. 



Shell small, smootli, oval, subcquilateral, plump, white, covered with a polished 

 pale straw-colored periostracum; beaks low, eroded, slightly nearer the anterior 



