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142 CFUIONID;E.
Original description:—Testa minuta, transversim oblonga,
antice rotundata, postice latiore subrostrata, rugio radiantibus,
confertissimis sculpta, sordida lutescente et virescente; dento
cardinali, valvse dextrse compresso triangular!; valvse sinistrffi
humili, sub vertice appendieulato; dentibus lateralibus -valvse
sinistrsB gerainis ; margarita ex luteo rubente.
Height 156-5, length 273-5, diam. 91 mm.
The species would seem to be very doubtfully Indian.
275. Nodularia (Nodularia) crispata (Gould).
Nodulm-ia (Nodulai-ia) crispata (Gould); Simpson, Washington,
D.O., Smiths. Inst., Nat. Mus.Proc. xxii, 1900, p. 815.
Unio crispata, Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. i,1843,p. 141;
Otia Oonch. 18fi2, p. 101.
Unio crispattts, Catlow & Reeve, Conch. Nom. 1845, p. 58; H. &
T., 0. 1. 1876, p. 21, pi. 45, %. 1.
Margaron (Unto) crispatus, Lea, Syn. 1870, p. 32.
Unio seobinatus, Lea, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, viii,
1856, p. 93 ; Obs. on Genus Unio, 1857, p. 19, pi. 26, tig. 13.
Margaron {Unio) seobinatus. Lea, Syn. 1870, p. S2.
Unio mandarinus, Morelet, J. ConcliylioL, Paris, xii, 1863, p. 159.
Uniopellis-lacerti, Morelet, J. ConchylioL, Paris, xiii, 1865, p. 22;
So-werby, Conch. Icon, xvi, 18G8, pi. 86, fig. 457.
Unio veimsfus, Morelet, J. ConchylioL, Paris, xiv, 1866, p. 63.
Unio ohlatus, Lea, Syn. 1870, p. 64.
Original description:—Testa o vali-elongata, insequilaterali, antice
lotundata, postice subrostrata, eostaque umbonali ; umbonibus
parvis; colore virescente, fusco variegata; rugis angulatis
radiantibus undique crispata: intus livida; dentibus parvis
obtusis.
Long. 23, lat. 43, diam. 13 mm.
Hah. Tavoy ; also Siam and Battambong, Cambodia (Indian
Mnseum Coll.).
A very beautiful species easily recognizable by its curious
sculpture, consisting of dark green, nodulous, waved ridges running
anteriorly in a horizontal, and posteriorly in a longitudinal
direction upon a ground of brigbt brownisK-yellow.
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276. Nodularia (Nodularia) scobina (Hanley).
Nodularia (Nodularia) scobina (Hanley); Simpson, Washington
D.O., Smiths. Inst., Nat. Mus. Proc. xxii, 1900, p. 816.
Unio scobtna, Hanlev, Rec. Biv. Shells p. 382, pi. 23, fig. 40 ;
Hanlev & Theobald, Cat. L. & F. W. Shells Brit. Ind. p. 49 ;
H. & t. C. I. pi. 46, tig. 2.
Original description:—[Shell] oblong, inequilateral, moderately
thick, rather compressed, vvicn i dark green rayon the anterior
slope, densely covered with raised oorrngations, which, upon the
simple umbonal slope are disposed in somewhat transverse
divergent curved narrow folds, are angularly met beyond it by
similar raised wrinkles, are arranged upon the hinder extremity iii