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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Pharella (javanica) Gray with one or two other tropical species as a section 

 under Solecurtus. The original Greek as shown by Herrmannsen would have 

 been more appropriately Latinized as Cyrtosolen, which, however, comes too 

 late, while the efforts of several emendators, who assumed a non-existent 

 Gneco-Latin compound in Solecurtus, have resulted in several unnecessary 

 synonyms. 



Solen paraUclus Gabb (Pal. Cal., i., p. 146, pi. 22, fig. 117, 1864; Plecto- 

 solen parallelus Conrad, S. I. Eocene Checkl., p. 9, 1866) has the aspect of 

 a Solecurtus, but I know it only from the figure. It is said to be from the 

 Tejon Eocene of California by Gabb, but Dr. Boyle in his bibliography of 

 American mesozoic fossils states that it is really Cretaceous. 



Pharella alta Gabb (op. cit., p. 147, pi. 22, fig. 118, 1864) appears to be- 

 long to the subgenus or section so named, and there are at least two other 

 species, all of which are now regarded as Cretaceous. Neither Solecurtus 

 proper nor Pharella have been identified from the American Tertiary. Sole- 

 curtus Blainvillei Lea (Contr. Geol., p. 39, pi. i, fig. 7, 1833) is a Psammobia, 

 and most of the other species cited under this generic name from our Tertiary 

 belong to Psammosolen. 



Genus Psammosolen Risso. 



Psammobia Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Mer., iv., p. 375 (not p. 350), 1826 (err. typog.). 

 Psammosolen Risso, op. cit., v., index, 1826 (corrig.). Type Solen strigilatus L. ; 



Philippi, Handb. Conch., p. 331, 1853; Homes, Foss. Moll. Wiener beck., ii., p. 18, 



1870. 



Tellina (sp.) Oken, Lehrb. Naturg. Zoologie, p. 224, 1815. 

 Macha Oken, Allgem. Naturg., v., i, p. 298, 1835. Type Solen strigilatus L. ; Gray, P. 



Z. S., 1847, p. 189; List Brit. An., Moll., p. 61, 1851 ; Morch, Yoldi Cat, ii., p. 8, 1853; 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., ii., p. 346, 1856; Fischer, Man. Conchyl., p. 1107, 



1887. 



Solecurtus p, Blainville, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxxii., p. 351, 1824; Man. Malac., p. 568, 1825. 

 Solecurtus Des Moulins, Actes Soc. Lin. de Bord., v., p. 100, 1832; Deshayes, in Lam., 



An. s. Vert., ed. ii., vi., p. 61, 1835; Traite eletn., p. 113, 1840; An. s. Vert. bass. Paris. 



i., 158; not of Blainville, 1824. 



< Solenocurtus Fischer, Man. de Conchyl., p. 1107, 1887. 



< Solenocurtis Swainson, Treatise Mai., p. 366, 1840. 



< Cyrtosolen Herrmannsen, Ind. Gen. Mai., ii., p. 468, 1848 ; corrig. 

 Adasius Leach, Syn. Moll. Gt. Brit., p. 266, 1852. Type Solen strigilatus Linne. 

 Not Macha Philippi, Handb. Conch., p. 331, 1853. 



Not Psammosolen Hupe, Gay's Hist, de Chile, viii., p. 365, 1854. 



