122 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



THE FAUNA OF THE MENTOR. 



By Alfred W. Jones, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina. 

 Read (by title) before the Academy, at Topelia, December 31, 1904. 



^T^HE following list of species I have collected in Saline, Ellsworth 

 -*- and McPherson counties ; unless particular localities are noted, 

 the species is common to the Mentor wherever marine forms occur : 



Oatrea franklina Coq. Frequent. 



Ostrea quadruplicata Shum. Brookville, Bavaria, and Marquette. 



Ostrea kansaaense Logan. Brookville; not abundant. 



Inoceramus comancheanus Crag. Brookville; rare. 



Avicula salinaensis White. Not common. 



Pteria salinaensiB White. Brookville; rare. 



Gervillia mudgeana White. Brookville and Bavaria. 



Gervillia, n. sp. Brookville; rare. 



Trigonia emoryi Conrad. Common. 



Nucula catherina Crag. Common. 



Tapes belvederensis Crag. Frequent. 



Roudaria quadrans Crag. Rare. 



Cardium kansasense Crag. Abundant. 



Protocardia salinaensis Meek. Common. 



Cyprimeria texana Roem. Rare. 



Linearia, n. sp. Not common. 



Corbula sp. Abundant in fresh-vvater locality jBve miles northeast of Salina. 



Uuio (belliplicata ?). Five miles southeast of Kanopolis. 



Unio, n. sp. Frequent in fresh-water locality near Salina. 



Pholcdomya sancti-sabce Roem. Brookville; rare. 



Mactra ( ? ) sp. Marquette; frequent. 



Pyrgulifera sp. Common in fresh-water locality near Salina. 



Pyrgulifera humerosa ( ?) Meek. Near Salina ; not common. 



Mesalia kansasensis Meek. Common. 



Turritella belviderei Crag. Common. 



Glauconia, n. sp. Brookville and Marquette; rare. 



Anchuria, n. sp. Brookville and Marquette; frequent. 



Turbo sp. Marquette; rare. 



Sphenodiscus sp. Three poorly preserved specimens from Brookville and 

 one from Marquette. A much better specimen was obtained a short time 

 ago from Thompson creek, in southern Ellsworth county, and a species 

 of Exogyra added to the list from this locality. 



