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BRACHIOPOOA. 
a. Beak round ; valves convex, smooth, or slightly plaited. 
1. Waldheimia flavescens. B.M. 
Shell oval, rather produced at the beak, gibbous, smooth when 
young, border of the adult more or less strongly furrow'ed with 
unequal, radiating folds ; front slightly truncated ; colour yel- 
lowish, or horny brown ; beak short and thick, not much re- 
cm-ved ; foramen rather large, complete ; deltidium large ; loop 
elongated, reflected ; margins at first even, afterwards more or 
less dentated. Lon. 17, lat. 14, alt. 8 lines. 
Terebratula flavescens, Lamk. Hist. 1819, ed. 2. vii. 330. 
Terebratula australis. Quay Sf Gaim. 1834, Voy. Astrol. v. 551. 
t. 85. f. 1-5. 
Sow. Tkes. Conch, vii. 349. t. 69. f. 25-33. 
Woodward, Manual, p. 8. f. 4, 5. 
Terebratula dentata, Lamk. Hist. ed. 2. vii. 331. 
Delessert, Icon. t. 18. f. 4. 
Yar. Terebratula recurva, Quoy 8f Gaim.XSiAjVoy. Astrol. \. 552. 
Sow. Thes. Conch, vii. 350. t. 69. f. 34, 35, 36. 
Hab. Australia, Sydney, just below low-water-mark. 
2. Waldheimia lenticularis. B.M. 
Shell orbicular, smooth, red; margins even; beak small, re- 
curved ; foramen small ; deltidium conspicuous ; loop elongated, 
reflected. Lon. 24, lat. 22, alt. 14 lines. 
Terebratula lenticularis, Deshayes, Mag. Zool. 1841, t. 41. 
G. B. Sow. Thes. Conch, vii. 360. t. 72. f. 108, 109, 110. 
Dav. Ann. Nat. Hist. May 1852, p. 365. 
Hab. New Zealand, Strait of Fauveau, at 15 fathoms. 
Fossil. In a modern deposit of New Zealand. 
3. Waldhei.mia cranium. B.M. 
Shell ovate, front margin sometimes a little truncated, smooth, 
jiale, translucent ; beak reflected ; foramen large, incomplete ; 
(leltidiau plates narrow', widely separated ; loop reflected, tw o- 
thirds as long as the shell. Lon. 24, lat. 19'5, alt. 14 mil. 
Petiver, Gaz. t. 93. f. 19. 
Anomia cranium, Gmelin, S. N. 3247. 
Dillw. R. S. i. 294. 
Anomia obsoleta, Solander, MSS. 
Anomia vitrea, Chemnitz, viii. 97. t. 78. f. 707-709. 
Terebratula cranium, Midler, Zool. Dan. Prod. 247. 
Sow. Thes. Conch, vii. 354. t. 70. f. 60, 61, 62. 
Lovin, Moll. Scand. p. 29. 
Hab. Norwav ; Finmark ; eastward of Bressay, Zetland, in deep 
water. 
