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complete, the lower portion produced into a conspicuous point 

 medially. Length of shell 15; width 12; diameter 5.5 mm. 



Type locality. — U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, station 5586, in 347 

 fathoms, mud, bottom temperature 44° F., in Sibuku Bay, Borneo, 

 off Sipadan Island. 



If it were not for the complete loop this species would certainly be 

 taken for a Gryphus. The striation is so fine and faint that it is 

 invisible without magnification. With the cardinalia complete it 

 can not be mistaken for any other species of Terebratulina. 



TEREBRATULINA RADULA Hedley. 



Terebratulina radula Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., vol. 29, p. 209, pi. 10, 

 figs. 48-50, 1904. 



Type locality. — East of WoUongong, Australia, in 100 fathoms. 



Genus GRYPHUS Megerle von Muhlfeldt. 



Gryphus Megerle, Mag. d. Ges. Naturf. freunde zu Berlin. 5ter Jahrg., 1811, 

 p. 64.— Dall., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 8, p. 70, 1877. Not Gryphus aucto- 

 rum as of Brisson, 1760, in error. Not Gryphus Oken, 1816. 



Terebratula Lamarck, Hist. Anim. s. Vert., vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 245, 1819. 



Liothyris Douville, Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, ser. 3, vol. 7, p. 265, 1879; 

 not of Conrad, Geol. Rep. N. Carolina, App. p. 9, 1873. 



Liothyrina Oehlert in Fischer, Man. de Conchyl., p. 1316, 1887. 



Type. — Anomia vitrea Born. 



The name Gryphus Megerle has been rejected by authors on the 

 ground that it was preoccupied by an alleged genus Gryphus of Brisson 

 in his work on birds. This, however, is due to an error. Brisson de- 

 scribed no genus Gryphus but used the word as a specific name for 

 the Condor, one of the species of his genus Vultur (p. 28). Hence the 

 brachiopod name is not, in a generic sense, preoccupied by its occur- 

 rence (p. 473) in Brisson's Omithologia. The name has been used by 



