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Tunis, appears to be more nearly equilateral, and more rounded 

 posteriorly than .-1. Griesbachi. 



Remarks. — The specimen figured by Griesbach as Astarte, sp., is a 

 portion of a left valve, and is now in the Hamburg Museum. Eight 

 examples of this species have been examined. 



Sub-genus EEIPHYLA, Gabb. 



Astarte (Eriphyla) lenticularis (Goldfuss). 



Plate XXXV., figs. 20. 



1840. Lucina lenticularis, Goldfuss, Petref. Germ. vol. ii., p. 228, 

 pi. cxlvi., fig. 16. 



1840. Lucina Beichii, Geinitz, Char. d. Schicht. u. Petref. des 



sachs. Kreidegeb., pt. 2, p. 49, pi. xvi., fig. 7. 



1841. Lucina Beichii, Eomer, Die Verstein. d. nord-deutsch. Kreide- 



geb., p. 73, pi. ix., fig. 15. 

 1841. Lucina ? lens, Eomer, Ibid., p. 73, pi. ix., fig. 14. 

 1843. Lucina lenticularis, Geinitz. Die Verstein. von Kieslingswalda, 



p. 13, pi. ii., fig. 4. 

 1846. Lucina lenticularis, Eeuss, Die Verstein. der bohm. Kreide- 



format., pt. 2, p. 4, pi. xxxiii., figs. 20-24; pi. xxxvii., 



fig. 17, pi. xh., fig. 10. 

 1850. Lucina lenticularis, d'Orbigny, Prodr. de Pal., ii., p. 241. 

 1850. Lucina lenticularis, Geinitz, Das Quadersandst. oder Kreide- 

 geb. in Deutschland, p. 158. 

 1860. Artemis lenticularis. Bosquet in Staring's Natuur. Hist, van 



Nederland. De Bodem van Nederland, ii., p. 380. 

 1863. Lucina lenticularis, Drescher, Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. 



Gesellsch., vol. xv.,p. 348. 

 1870. Eriphijla lenticularis, Stoliczka, Cret. Fauna S. India, vol. iii., 



p. 181, pi. vi., figs. 7-13. 

 1872. Eriphyla lenticularis, Geinitz, Das Elbthalgeb. in Sachsen 



(Palaeontographica, vol. xx.,pt. 2), p. 62, pi. xvii., figs. 1, 2; 



pi. xviii., figs. 1, 2. 



1876. Eriphyla lenticularis, Brauns, Zeitschr. f. d. gesammt. Natur- 



v^iss. vol. xlvi., p. 367. 



1877. Eriphyla lenticularis, Fritsch, Stud, im Gebiete der bohm. 



Kreideformat. ii., Weissenberg. u. Malnitz. Schicht. p. 116, 

 fig. 78. 

 1883. Eriphyla lenticularis, Fritsch, Ibid., iii., Iserschicht. 

 p. 101. 



