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it be found desirable or important to recognize the value of the characters above 

 indicated, these forms may be separated under the term Leptosteophia. 



As typical representatives of this group, may be taken S. magnifica, Hall, of 

 the Oriskany sandstone, and S. perplana, Conrad, of the Corniferous, Hamilton 

 and Chemung faunas ; and of the other American representatives we may cite 

 (S. textilis, Hall, of the Coralline limestone, S. Becki, Hall, of the Lower Helder- 

 berg, S. magniventra, Hall, of the Oriskany, S. Junia, Hall, of the Hamilton, S. 

 Irene, S. Blainvillii and S. Tullia, BiUings, from the Lower Devonian of Gaspe. 

 In European faunas the group is represented by Strophomena filosa, (Sowerby) 

 Davidson, of the Wenlock, S. explanata, (Sowerby) Kayser, of the Coblenzian, 

 S. ? palma, Kayser, of the Calceola beds, and S. Steini, Kayser, of the Wiedaer- 

 schiefer (Lower Devonian) of the Hartz 



There is a small number of species, the incipient members of the genus 

 Stropheodonta, in which the delthyrium is open, or but partially covered, as 

 in some of its later forms, the crenulations are confined to a very limited ex- 

 tent on either side of the deltidium, and upon one of these forms, Strophomena 

 Leda, Billings, from the Anticosti group. Professor 

 Shaler has proposed to found* the genus Brachyprion. 

 To the same group belong the Strophomena Philomela, 

 Billings, from the Pentamerus oblongus beds of Anticosti, 

 and Professor Shaler has described two other species 

 from Anticosti, Brachyprion ventricosum and B. genicula- Fm. -n. r.radajprion Leda. 

 turn. These features can scarcely be regarded as of 



generic value, but the group is an interesting one on account of its being the 

 precursor of the fuller development of those characters on which the genus 

 Stropheodonta was originally founded. 



Dr. CEhlert has proposed the generic term Douvillina,! for the species 

 Leptana Dutertrii, Murchison,J evidently not fully apprehending its very close 



* Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. i, p. 63. 1865. 



t In Fischer's Manuel de Conchyliologie ; Brachiopodes, p. 12S2. 1887. 



I See DE Vebneuil, Geolog-ie de la Russie, etc., p. 228, pi. xiv, figs. 2 a, b, c. Fig. 4 of the same plate 

 represents an interior closely similar to that figured by CEhlert, and in the explanation of plate is referred 

 to L. Dutertrii, but on page 224 is regarded as belonging to L. asella, de Verneuil. In this case the latter 



