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172 UXIOXID^.<br />

postice declive truneata, margine ventrali recto. Umbonibtis<br />

decorticatis. Epidermide flavescente, postice viridescente. Testa<br />

concentrice striata et rugis plilritnis minutis valde approximantibus<br />

angulariter seu fulgurate granuloso-crispata, postice tantiim radiatim<br />

granuloso-crispata. Dentibus cardinalibus bifidis in utraque<br />

valvo. Nacrea cserulescenti-albida, iridescente. In senioribus<br />

granulationes valde inconspicusB fiunt.<br />

Long. 25*5, lat. 39, diain. 18 mm.<br />

Hah. Near Gowhatti, Assam.<br />

The sculpture of this species much resembles that of jVodidaria<br />

crispisulcata, Benson,<br />

307. Parreysia (Parreysia) perconvexa, Preston.<br />

Parreysia (Parreysia)perconvexa, Preston, Eec. Ind. Mus., Calcutta,<br />

vij, 1912, p. 302.<br />

Original description:—Shell ovate, slightly curved, very convex,<br />

solid but much eroded, where intact covered by a dark blackish-<br />

Fig. 17.—1 & 2. I'arrei/sia {P.) perconvexa, Preston. (Type,) Nat. size.<br />

3. Hinge of same.<br />

brown periostracum; umbones moderately large; dorsal margin,<br />

sloping in an anterior direction ; ventral margin slightly curved

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