165 St. Maurice and Claiborne Pelecypoda 165 



De Gregorio gave the figures herewith copied and a few re- 

 marks regarding this form in his famous essay on the Claiborne, 

 in 1890. He states definitely that although Conrad had re- 

 ferred it to A bra and Scrobicularia and it resembles the Semele 

 alba of Wood, "il n'y a pas la petite pouche caracteristique de 

 la charniere." 



Cossmann finds this species remarkably close in general ■di^- 

 pearance to "5^;7/rt'c'iv;rj'<7 telli7iiila'' {Abra nitens) 3'et this is a 

 Tellina. Dall states that the true 7iitens of Lea is an Abra, 

 hence this Tellinoid representative is without name ; therefore 

 he suggests T. cossmanni. 



Dall bases his species on de Gregorio' s figures and remarks 

 as well as the statements of Cossmann. He says : 



A small species of Tellina of almost identical form [as A. miens'] is 

 figured by de Gregorio under this name (pi. 35, figs. 13-16) and Cossmann 

 has supposed that this might have been Lea's species. Lea's specimens 

 however, are of the Abra, and the Tellina, requiring a new name, might be 

 called T. cossmanni. Gregorio's figures erroneously represent the pallial 

 line as entire. 



So far as we are aware there are no specimens of this species 

 in American museums. 



The types must be regarded as the specimens figured by 

 Gregorio. They are doubtless in his private cabinet. 



Tellina cherokeensis, n. sp., PI. 50, Figs. 19, 20 



Specific characterization . — Broad and of medium size as fig- 

 ured ; with sharply-defined concentric striation over the whole 

 surface, though becoming somewhat coarser basally ; beaks 

 pointed, a little posterior from the middle ; lunule and escutcheon 

 narrow and deeply impressed ; posterior deflected to the right as 

 viewed from the rear ; left valve with a fairly well defined, but 

 low, umbonal ridge, anterior to which is a slight radiating, broad 

 depression and posterior to which is a narrower radiating de- 

 pression midway of the post-umbonal slope ; right valve with 

 more pronounced umbonal ridge and steeper, somewhat broader 

 post-umbonal slope. 



Specimens do not show the interior to any great extent but 



