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The field covered by the following catalogue includes the 

 recent littoral species from Tampa, western Florida, to Galves- 

 ton and Corpus Christi, Texas; the recent deep water and abys- 

 sal species dredged by the Steamer Blake in the Gulf of Mexico, 

 south to the Straits of Florida and the Channel of Yucatan; the 

 Pleistocene, Pliocene, and a few Miocene species from Gulf State 

 wells; the Pleistocene species of Grand Chenier; the marine Pli- 

 ocene species of North Creek, western Florida, and the curious 

 brackish water Pliocene species of Alexandria, Louisiana, and of 

 Burkeville, Texas, which are closely related to those of the Sa- 

 tilla River, Georgia. 



MOLLUSCA 



CLASS PELECYPODA 

 ORDER PRIONODESMACEA 



Genus SOLEMYA Lamarck 

 occidental is Deshayes 



Solenomya occidentalis Desh., Jour, de Conch., vol.7, p. 



186, pi. 7, fig. 6, 1858. 

 occidentalis DdiW, Bull. 24, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 274, 1885; 

 Bull. 37, U. S. Nat. Mus. p. 46, 1889. 

 Distribution. — Gulf of Mexico to Guadeloupe. Recent. Shal- 

 low water. 

 Gulf Coast.— Western Florida (Dall). 



Genus NUCULA Lamarck 



proxima Say 



obliqua Say, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 2, p. 40, 1820. (Not 

 i>3/z^z/a Lamarck, 1819). 



proxima Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 2, p. 270, 

 1822; Tuomey and Holmes, Pleoic. Fos. S. C, p. 53, pi. 

 17, figs. 7-9, 1855; Holmes, Post-Plio. Fos. S. C. p. 17, 

 pi. 3, fig. 6, i860; Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. Nat, Mus., p. 42, 

 pi. 16, fig. 4, 1889 ; Trans. Wag. Inst. Sci. 3, pt. 4, p 

 574, 1898; Clark, Pleistocene of Maryland, Md. Geol. 

 Surv., p. 207, pi. 65, figs. 1-4, 1906. 



