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4, Kixgena snALAXUKExsis, StoUczka, PI. VII, Figs. 15, IG, 17. 
King, testa rotimdate vel oblonge ovata, valca timhonali altera convexiore, super- 
ficie minutissime cequaliter granulata; valca licemali medio paululiim insiniiata, 
seplo f longitudinis ceqnante instructa ; valca nenrali postice valde angiistata, 
angidum circiter 85” — formante, carinis timbonalibtis distinclis, acutis ; timbone 
valde incurvo, longo, foramine rotundato truncato ; deltidio parco, prope foramen 
distincter separate, deinde partibus angulatis inter se fere attingentibus. 
Some of the rounder specimens of this species closely rescmhlc the large Ceno- 
manien variety figured hy Schloenhach (Beuecke’s Geog., Paliuont. Bcitrsege, 18G8, 
vol. i, p. 469, pi. xxii, fig. 8,) under the name of Kingena lima, but they arc readily 
distinguished by the greater posterior narrowness of the umbonal valve and strongl}^ 
incurved and produced beak. The beak ridges are rather sharp and short, but the 
septum is much longer than usually seen in King. lima. The surface is equally 
and very finely granular, and even on a broken surface of the shell, the punctation 
is much finer than in considerably smaller specimens of the former species. 
Much closer is the resemblance of our species with Meyer’s Lower Green- 
sand TFaldheimia Morrisi (Geol. Mag., v, 1868, p. 269, and ibid., vol. i, pi. xii, 
figs. 12 — 14), but the beak is in this last much less incurved and the deltidium 
much more exposed, larger, the two pieces forming a distiuct suture ; the septum 
also is said to be short. Similar characters equally easily separate oiu’ species from 
WaldU. longa, but as regards form and the curvature of the beak, it most closely 
resembles d’Archiac’s Ter. Robertoni, and as this species has occasionally been 
referred to Waldlieimia, it is possible that those were specimens which belong 
to the present new species, and that its occurrence in Cenomanien beds of Europe 
may yet be proved. 
Locality. — Shalanurc, in a brownish somewhat ferruginous sandstone ; five speci- 
mens were examined. The largest is 31 mm. long, 24 broad, and about 16 mm. 
thick. 
Formation . — Base of the Trichinopoly group, probably passing into the Oota- 
toor beds. 
Genekal results obtained ebom the examination of the South Indian 
Cretaceous Brachiopoda. 
From the foregoing descriptions it will be seen that the Brachiopoda equal only 
about one-twelfth part of the number by which the Gastropoda or Pelecypoda are 
represented in the South Indian cretaceous rocks. Altogether, I have been able to 
distinguish only 21 species,* which belong to five genera and three different fami- 
lies, namely, the Craniidm with one species of Crania, the Riiynciionbllid.^ with 
* Forbes, wben describing the South Indian fossils in 1846, knew only Ter. depressa, which he described under 
the name T. arabilis, 
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