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CHIONE (CHIONE) INTAPURPUREA Conrad, 1849. 



Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and southward to Florida and the 

 Ke,y.s and westward on the mainland coast to Texas. Also fossil in 

 the Pliocene of Florida. 



This elegant species is the Yenus punctulatd of Conrad, 1848, not of 

 Valenciennes; and the F; lacimata Reeve, 1863. 



CHIONE (CHIONE) PUBERA Valenciennes, 1827. 



West Indies and northern shores of South America. This fine 

 species has been much confused with an East Indian form for which 

 the name of Oythereacfrenata(^vci^\\^^ 1792,'^' should l)e retained. The 

 present species is a Chlone^ ^^w^ is the Yeiius cniinlata of Sowerhy, 

 1853, and Reeve, 1863, but not of Dillwyn, 1817, or Deshayes (ex 

 parte), 1853. A young specimen with the valves somewhat worn is 

 figured on Plate 267 of the Encyclopedic Methodique (figs. 4, l:a), 

 and to this in the explanation of these plates ))v Bory St. Vincent, in 

 1827, page 152, is attached the name of Venus jn/hera Valenciennes. 

 To figs. 3 and 3a is given the name of Veiiu!< jniiictata A^alenciennes, 

 but it is not the Venus punctata of Linnt^us. Conrad, in 1843, cited 

 fig. 4 as Venus punctulata Valenciennes,'^ thus committing a double 

 error. Our shell is Venus exi/nna Philippi, 1847, and V. supri'lja Guppy, 

 1875. V. Jacunatus Reeve, 1863, is probal)ly a 3'oung specimen of it. 



It is remarkable for its resemblance to the Oriental ('i/therru 

 referred to, but can at once be distinguished )iy the absence of the 

 vestigial anterior lateral. Venus dounieti Bernardi. 18<i(). may be a 

 rather short young specimen of this species. 



CHIONE (TIMOCLEA) PECTORINA Lamarck, 1818. 



The Antilles, and southward to Brazil at Sao Paulo. 



It is Venus elegans Gray, 1828. 



CHIONE (TIMOCLEA) GRANULATA Gmelin, 1792. 



Belize, and throughout the West Indies to Brazil. 



This is Venus inar/ea Born, 1780, but not of Linna?us, 1768; C. 

 lavacrum Bolten, 1798; and Venus pi unihea Reeve, 1864. It is T" vio- 

 lacea^ and perhaps F. puipumta, Gmelin, 1792. Lamarck and Bory 

 St. Vincent have confused numbers of the figures on the plates of the 

 Encyclopedic Methodique, so that the same figure is made to stand foi- 

 V. f/vY/y/y/A/A/ Gmelin, T" cardloides Lamarck, and Venericardki rududu 

 Valenciennes, 1S27, V. cardloides is probably not an Antillean species, 

 and may be identical with 7 apes Mstrifmica Sowerhy, as well as Cytherea 

 cardilla Lamarck. 



« Veims crenulata Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., VI, 1782, p. 370, pi. xxxvi, fig. 385. 

 ftProc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, p. 311. 



