LAMELLIBRANCHIA TA. 
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Ptychopteria Thetis, n. sp. 
PLATE LXXXV, FIGS. 1-4. 
Shell of medium size, rhomboidal; body narrow-ovate, oblique at an angle of 
about 50° to tbe hinge-line; length one-third greater than the height; 
ante-byssal margin obliquely sub-truncate, and curving into a very shallow 
sinus, from which it makes a broad curve to the sub-angular posterior 
margin, whence it is abruptly recurved. 
Left valve convex below, gibbous above, very obtusely sub-angular along 
the middle. 
Hinge-line straight, length a little greater than the height of the valve. 
Beak at about the anterior third of the hinge, prominent, arching over the 
cardinal line and directed forward. Umbonal region gibbous, subtending an 
acute angle. 
Anterior end short, limited by a nearly vertical byssal depression; 
extremity acute. Wing of medium size, triangular, joining the body of the 
shell nearly at the posterior extremity; margin truncate, oblique; extremity 
apparently not extended. 
Surface marked by concentric striae, which are irregularly fasciculate, and 
have an angular recurvation along the middle of the body. The body and 
wing are marked by comparatively fine radii, which are sometimes distinctly 
cancellated by the concentric lines, and are obscure or obsolete on the anterior 
portion of the shell, which is marked only by the lamellose concentric striae. 
Interior unknown. 
A specimen of the left valve of the usual size has a length of 32 mm., 
height 21 mm., and hinge-line 22 mm. 
This species resembles P. Sao, but the angle of the body to the hinge-line is 
greater, and from the umbo to the posterior end, the valve is sub-angular; 
the hinge is longer in proportion, and the fold of the wing less conspicuous. 
A right valve in the same association has about the same proportions, but 
the body is narrower and the radii coarser, making the identity doubtful. 
Formation and locality. In a conglomerate of the Chemung group at Panama, 
Chautauqua county, N. Y. 
