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BRACHIOPODA. 
** Loop two-lobed. Cistella {Gray). 
2 . Argiope cuneata. 
Shell very small, transversely subquadrate, with a few obseure 
radiating ribs ; colour pale, with the interspaces of the ribs bright 
red ; interior of dorsal valve with a single, central septum and a 
two-lobed loop. Lon. 2, lat. 2i lines. 
Terebratula cuneata, Risso, Eur. Merid. f. 179, 1826. 
Blainv. D. S. N. liii. 146. 
Philippi, Moll. Sicil. i. p. 96. t. 6. f. 13. 
Sow. Thes. Conch, p. 355. t. /L f- 83, 84. 
Anomia Pera, Miihlfeldt, Berlin Gesell. i. p. 205, 1829. 
Orthis Pera, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. ii. p. 69. 
Terebratula Soldaniana, Risso, Eur. Merid. f. 178, 1826. 
Blainv. D. S. N. liii. 146. 
Terebratula detruncata, Scacchi, Catal. p. 17 (not Gmel.). 
Argiope cuneata, Dav. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1852, p. 373. 
Hab. Mediterranean, 28-69 fathoms. 
3. Argiope Neapolitana. B.M. 
Shell minute, pale brown, translucent, smooth, or obscurely 
ribbed ; beak produced and pointed ; area narrow ; foramen deep, 
bordered by the deltidia ; dorsal valve subquadrate, slightly lobed 
in front ; margins thickened internally ; septum single, central ; 
loop two-lobed. Lon. 2, lat. 2 lines (fig. 23). 
Terebratula Neapolitana, Scacchi, Oss. Zool. h- p. 18, 1833. 
Orthis Neapolitana, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. ii. p. 69. 
Terebratula seminulum, Phil. Moll. Sicil. i. p. 97. t, 6. f. 15 (bad). 
G. B. Sow. Thes. Conch, vii. p. 356. t. 71- f- 87, 88. 
Terebratula lunifera, G. Sow. Thes. Conch, t. 71- f- 85, 86 (not 
Phil.). 
Argiope Forbesii, Davidson, Ann. Nat. Hist. May 1852, p. 373. 
Argiope Neapolitana, Dav. June 1852, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 
pi. . f. 24, 25. 
Hab. Mediterranean, in deep water (60-105 fathoms). 
Fossil. Pliocene. Tarentum. 
4. Argiope cistellula. 
Shell minute, smooth, horn-coloured, globidar, ti’uncated or 
slightly indented in front ; beak prominent ; foramen large ; del- 
tidia narrow ; interior of dorsal valve with a single median sep- 
tum and a two-lobed loop. Lon. 1, lat. 1, alt. i line. 
Terebratula cistellula, Searles Wood, 1840, Ann. Nat. Hist. 5. 
Megathyris cistellula, Forbes ^Hanley, Brit.Mollusca, pi. 57. f. 9. 
