BRACniOPODA. 



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ligamental area small but broad, transversely striated, not hollowed ; 

 on each side a row of numerous small transverse teeth like stria) ; 

 muscular impression oval, placed high up. Height, 1 ; length, -8. 

 Localities. — Broken Kiver (l). 



137. O. incurva, sp. nov. Ovate, thick, convex, beak incurved ; 

 exterior gibbous, with concentric imbricating rather distant lamina) ; 

 area bounded on each side by a sliallow sulcus, transversely striated, 

 short and broad ; pit triangular, curved, hollowed ; muscular impression 

 moderate, posterior, very deeply impressed, lunate. Height, 5 5 ; 

 length, 4. 



Localities. — Oamaru ; Brighton. 



138. O. COrrugata, sp. nov. Ovate, irregular, attached by the 

 left valve ; left valve convex, radiately ribbed, the ribs crossed by 

 concentric, undulating, imbricating laminae ; right valve flat, irregular, 

 smooth, with concentric imbricating laminar plates round the margin. 

 Height, 3 ; length, 2-6. 



Localities. — Shakespeare Cliff*. 



GRYPHiEA. 



Free, inequivalve ; inferior valve large, concave ; beak prominent, 

 incurved, ending in an involute spire ; superior valve small, flat; hinge 

 toothless ; cardinal^fossa oblong, arcuated. 



139. Gr. tarda, sp. nov. Irregularly ovate, umbo of left valve 

 incurved and bent slightly forwards ; exterior smooth, with concentric 

 strisB ; right valve rather concave, often thickened near the margin, 

 much smaller than the left valve ; area broad, triangular, distinctly 

 transversely striated ; muscular impression sub-orbicular, rather flat- 

 tened above, where it is deeply sunken, posterior, placed high up. 

 Height, 2 4; length, 17. 



Localities. — Chatham Islands. 



Class — Braehiopoda. 



Family — Teeebratulidje. 



WALDHEMIA. 



1. W. lenticularis, Beshaijes; Cat. Marine Moll., p. 85. 

 Localities. — "VVanganui (u) ; The Deans, "Waipai a ; Waitotara ; 



Napier ; Parakino ; Chatham Islands ; Broken River (l) ; Kaipuki ; 

 Oamaru ; Winton ; AYeka Pass (u) ; Curiosity Shop ; Takaka ; Tata 

 Island ; Black-birch Creek. 



2. W. COncentrica, sp. nov. Shell oval, concent I'ically striated ; 

 valves nearly equally convex ; beak of ventral valve pr^ luced, slightly 



