92 DEVONIAN FAUNA. 



III. Family — Trigoniid^, Fleming, 1828. 



1, Genus — Myophokia, Bronn, 1835. 



Salter establislied the genus Curtonotus, and Neumayer Kefersteinia, for shells 

 which are similar or identical with Devonian species referred to ScMzoclus, but 

 which are shown by Beushausen to be included within the limits of Mi/ophoria. 



1. Myophoria inflata, F. a. Burner, sp. Plate X, figs. 3, 3 a, 4, 4: a. 



1843. Tellina inflata, F. A. Eomer. Verst. Harzgeb., p. 28, pi. vi, fig. 22. 

 ? 1844. AxiNDS NUCULOiDES, M'Coy. Syn. Garb. Ireland, p. 63, pi. xi, fig. 9. 

 1849. Caedinia inflata, d' Orhiyny . Prodrome, vol. i, p. 76. 

 1855. — — F. A. Bomer. Beitr. Harzgeb., pt. 3, p. 13, pi. iii, 



fig. 12. 

 1855. — TEAPEZoiDALis, F. A. Bomer. Ibid., p. 13, pi. iii, fig. 11. 



1857. ScHizODTJS iNFLATUs, Kefersteiii. Zeitseh. Deutsch. Greol. GeselL, vol. ix, 



p. 153, pi. iv, figs. 1—3. 

 1884. — — Beushausen. Abhandl. Geol. Specialk. Preuss., vol. 



vi, pt. 1, p. 99, p]. vi, fig. 6. 

 1884. — Kefeesteini, Beushausen. Ibid., p. 100, pi. v, fig. 13. 



1884. — TEAPEZOIDALIS, Beushausen. Ibid., p. 101, pi. vi, fig. 9. 



1895. MroPHOEiA inflata, Beushausen. Abhandl. k. Preuss. Geol. Landes.,n. s., 



vol. xvii, p. 122, pi. ix, figs. 6, 7. 

 1895. — cf. inflata, Beushausen. Ibid., p. 123, pi. ix, figs. 8 — 10. 



Bescription. — Cast moderate in size, almond-shaped, transverse. Umbo rounded, 

 inclined slightly forward, situated behind the anterior third. Hinge-line long, 

 large, gently convex. Hinge-teeth large, broad, oblique. Anterior margin broad, 

 very convex. Inferior margin long, slightly convex. Posterior corner produced, 

 narrow, subangular. Postero-superior margin long, oblique. Contour of back 

 convex, becoming steeper in front, obliquely flattened in the postero-superior part, 

 sometimes with two indistinct rounded angles on the cast, which radiate to the 

 infero-posterior region. Anterior muscle-scar large, angular, deep, situated 

 near the umbo ; posterior scar more elongate and less distinct. Shell massive. 



Size. — Height 19 mm., length 26 mm., depth of one valve 9 mni. 



Localities. — Three specimens are in the Museum of Practical Geology from 

 county Cork, and five poor and doubtful specimens in the Woodwardian Museum 

 from west of Saunton Court. 



