This genus derives its common name from a fancied resemblance to a miniature triumphal car.

Shell very thin, transparent, symmetrical, convex below, flat above, valves unequal, form tricuspidated, cleft at the sides, open like a cleft anteriorly, and tridentated posteriorly; summit truncated.

Hyalæa tridentata.

Hyalæa cuspidata.

H. tridentata. The three-toothed Hyalæa.

Transparent, horn-coloured, globular; tridentated posteriorly; summit and two posterior sides open; finely striated transversely.

2. Clio. Has no Shell. Two species.

Clio Borealis.

Clio Australis.

3. Cleodora. Two species.