3. PLATYLEPAS ----?

_Hab._--Imbedded in the skin of a sea-snake, taken off Borneo.

I am indebted to Dr. Gray for a single specimen of this supposed

species, but as it is very young and imperfect, wanting the opercular

valves and cirri, I do not choose to name it. The shell presents all

the usual characters of the genus; the rostrum, I may remark, being

pushed to the left side. The parietes are permeated by pores of

considerable size, which shows that the species is distinct from _P.

decorata_. On the inner basal surfaces of the walls, there are two or

three very distinct ridges on each side of the midrib; and this fact,

together with the size of the parietal pores, makes me suspect that it

is not an immature specimen of _P. bissexlobata_.

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