6. Crania. The Scull. One species.

So called from the appearance caused by three holes or cavities on the

surface of the lower valve.

Shell irregular, orbicular, inequivalve; the inferior valve almost flat,

and marked on the interior with four muscular impressions, sometimes

very deep, and of which the two sub-central are sufficiently connected

to form but one; the superior valve like a Patella, more or less convex,

with four very distinct muscular impressions, rather distant.

_C. personata._ The masked Crania. Pl. 16, fig. 4.

Orbicular; upper valve gibbous and conical, lower valve flat, with three

perforations.

FAMILY XX.

BRACHIOPODA. Three genera.

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