50 Bulletin 34 83 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 55, p. 756, '03. 

 Vemis edentula Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. 7, pi. 40, f. 427-429, 



1784. Not of Linnaeus, 1758. 

 Lucina edentula Reeve, Conch. Icon., L^icina, pi. 2, fig. 9, 



1850 : Heilprin, Tr. Wagner Inst, i, p. 102, '86. 

 Loripes edentula var, chrysostoma Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. N. 



M., p. 52, '89. 

 Distribution. — Florida to Santa Cruz, shallow water. Mio- 



cene(?) to Recent. Gulf coast. — Tampa, Ft, Barranca, 



St. Joseph's Bay and Crooked Island, Fla. Pliocene : Ca- 



loosahatchie. 

 philippiana Reeve, Conch. Icon., Liicina, pi. 5, f. 22,a~b, 1850 ; 



Dall, T. W. I., 3, p. 1355, 1903. 

 edentula Philippi, '47. Not of Linnaeus, nor Reeve. 

 se/ira?nmz Crosse, Jour. de. Conchy., 24, p. 166, '76. 

 Loripes edentula Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 6, p. 338, '83 ; 



Singley, Fourth Ann. Rept. Tex., p. 326, '92 ; Mitchell, 



List Texas Shells, p. 14. 

 Distribution. — West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Pleistocene 



to Recent. Gulf coast. — Sarasota Bay, Fla., Matagorda 



and Corpus Christi Ba^-s, Tex. 

 Note. — Both this and the preceding genus have been confused 



with L. edentula Linn. According to Hanle)', the true 



edentida is oriental. 



Genus IVIYRTAEA Turton 

 COmpressa Dall, B. M. C. Z., Harvard Coll., 9, p. 135, 1881. (as 



Loripes); Ide^n, 12, p. 266, pi. 14, f. 2, '86; Bull. 37, U. 



S. N. M., p. 52, pi. 14, f. 2, '89 ; Proc. U. S. N. M., 23, 



p. 804, 1901. 

 Distribution. — Cuba and Sombrero Isl., 72-424 fms. ; ^Gulf of 



Mexico off Cape San Antonio, 413 fms. Possibly a variety' 



of the following species. 

 lens Verrill and Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., 5, p. 569 ; 6, p- 



259, 1880, {diS Loripes) ; Amer. Jour. Sci., 20, p. 4 ; Dall, 



B. M. C. Z., 12, p. 266; Bull. 37, U. S. N. M., p. 52, 



