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PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW YORK. 
Surface ornamented by numerous strong, distant, elevated, rounded rays, 
with interspaces marked by a strong ray in the centre, and several finer 
ones on each side, producing two series of alternations. Concentric striae 
obscure. The arrangement of the rays gives the surface a fasciculate aspect, 
especially marked in the impression of the exterior. The rays on the pos¬ 
terior ear are sharp and simple, while on the anterior ear they are similar to 
those on the body of the shell. 
Interior not observed. 
The specimen has a length of 48 mm., height 35 mm., hinge-line about 
36 mm. 
This species is distinguished from P. suborbicularis by its greater length and 
doubly alternating radii. Though somewhat similar in form to P. crenicostatus , 
the surface characters are very different. 
Formation and locality. In Corniferous limestone at Stafford, Genesee county, 
N. Y. 
Pterinopecten reflexus, n. sp. 
PLATE LXXXII, FIG. 8. 
Shell of medium size, rhomboidal, moderately oblique; length one-sixth 
greater than the height; outline regularly curved to the postero-basal mar¬ 
gin, thence extending posteriorly. 
Left valve depressed-convex; margin reflexed. Right valve unknown. 
Hinge-line straight, extended posteriorly, exceeding the greatest length of 
the shell. 
Beak obtuse, low, rounded, directed forward. Umbonal region convex, 
subtending an obtuse angle. 
Posterior ear large, flat, triangular, scarcely defined from the umbo; mar¬ 
gin slightly convex; extremity obtuse. Anterior ear small, triangular, con¬ 
vex, limited by an undefined sulcus and a shallow byssal sinus; margin 
nearly straight; extremity obtuse. 
Test marked by fine, rounded striae, alternating with finer lines; inter¬ 
mediate spaces flat. ' The same surface marking continues in a subdued 
