FAMILY VALVATID^E 121 



erate number of whorls slowly enlarging and without spiral keels. 

 Type V. piscinalis (Miiller) . 



Ielskia Bourguignat (Jelskia West., not Tacz.). Shell turbinate, 

 with few rapidly enlarging whorls and no spiral keels. Type V. 

 jelskii Crosse. 



Tropidina H. and A. Adams. Shell depressed turbinate, with the 

 upper surface of the spire more or less flattened and the whorls spi- 

 rally keeled. Type V. tricarinata (Lesueur) Say. 



Since Miiller associated but one species with the genus when de- 

 scribed, that species necessarily becomes the type. A failure to rec- 

 ognize this, when subdividing the genus, is responsible for several of 

 the synonyms. I have not been able to consult Hiibner's Zwei Briefe, 

 and cite him on the authority of Westerlund, but, judging by his paper 

 on Cobresia of the same year, his nomenclature was not Linnean, 

 although his artistic capacity seems to have been exceptional. 



Valvata tricarinata Say. 



Cyclostoma tricarinata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, p. 13, 181 7. 

 Valvata tricarinata Say, op. cit., 11, p. 173, 1821. — Gould, Inv. Mass., 



p. 225, fig. 156, three views, 1841. — Haldeman, Mon. Limn., vin, p. 



3, pi. 1, figs. 1-4, 1845. 

 Valvata carinata Sowerby, Genera, part xli, fig. 2, 1834. 

 Valvata unicarinata De Kay, Zool. N. Y., Moll., p. 118, pi. vi, fig. 129, 1843. 

 Valvata tricaritiata var. simplex Gould, Inv. Mass., p. 226, fig. 156 (right 



hand figure), 1841. 

 Valvata humeralis Miles, Geol. Surv. Michigan, p. 237, i860, not of Say. 

 Valvata tricarinata var. confusa Bryant Walker, Nautilus, xv, No. 11, p. 



124, fig. 2, 1902. 



Range. — From New England and Virginia westward to the Mis- 

 souri, and northward. 



Type : St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes ! Manitoba, in 

 Great Playgreen and Winnipeg Lakes ! and Pine Creek ; Red Deer, 

 Alberta ; Moose Factory, Keewatin ; Saskatchewan 

 River ! Great Slave Lake ! Methy Lake in Lat. 57 N. ^^ 



Variety simplex : English River, Keewatin ! ^5Ql 



Peace River, Athabaska ! Great Slave Lake, at Fort 



Resolution ! upper Mackenzie River at Fort Simp- M ' . . a ' 

 rr ± vata tricari?ia- 



son ! in N. Lat. 62 . ta i t 



Full grown specimens of this species have three 

 and a half whorls, a maximum diameter of 5, and an altitude of 3 

 mm. This applies to both varieties, though under exceptionally 

 favorable circumstances it may be somewhat exceeded. The aper- 

 ture is orbicular and almost vertical in plane. 



