316 FOSSIL OSTREID^ OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Ostrea lurida Carpenter. 



(Plato LXXII, Figs. 2, 3.) 

 This living sjiecies is mentioned as fossil in the Pliocene of California 

 in MoUusks of Western North America (Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, 252), page 305. It is not figured in that work. 



Syn. — 0. edulis Cooper (non Lin.) fide Carpenter, loc. cit., page 85, — Gabb, 

 Paleontology of California, II, page 106. 



From Benicia. Fossil at San Pablo, according to Di\ Newberry (teste 

 Carpenter, loc. cit, page 306). 



Ostrea veatchii Gabb. 



(Plate LXXII, Fig. 1.) 



This is another California species published by Gabb in Paleontology 

 of California, II, pages 34, 60. 



