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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Oligocene of Bowden, Jamaica, Henderson and Simpson ; Pliocene of 

 Trinidad, Guppy ; Pleistocene of the Antillean region generally, and recent 

 throughout the West Indies and as far north as Cape Hatteras. 



Guppy cites -5\ carnaria L. from the Bowden beds, but his specimens and 

 all the specimens I have seen from the Bowden marl are identical, so far as 

 I can judge, with the present species. 



Strigilla flexuosa Say. 

 Tellina flcxuosa Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii., p. 303, 1822; Hanley, Thes. 



Conch., p. 261, pi. Ivi., figs. 28, 29, 1847; Holmes, P.-P1. Fos. S. Car., p. 44, pi. vii., 



fig. 14, 1858. 



Tellina mirabilis Philippi, Arch, fur Naturg., 1841, i., p. 260. 

 Strigilla Aexuosa H. and A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., ii., p. 399, 1856. 

 Strigilla carolincnsis Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. for 1862, p. 573. 



Oligocene of the lower bed at Alum Bluff, Florida ; Miocene of the Natu- 

 ral Well and at Magnolia, Duplin County, North Carolina; Pliocene of the 

 Caloosahatchie and Shell Creek, Florida; Post-Pliocene of North and South 

 Carolina; and recent from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, southward to 

 Bermuda and the Antilles. 



Holmes's figure, cited above, is poor ; the artist has drawn the teeth in the 

 reversed position, probably by inadvertence. Conrad's- name is based on the 

 figure in the " Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina," pi. xxii., fig. 7, which is 

 an excellent representation of the recent S. flexuosa, though derived from the 

 Miocene of Peedee River, South Carolina. 



Strigilla prora Gabb (Am. Journ. Conch., v., p. 30, 1870), from the Ter- 

 tiary of Payta, Peru, is not a Strigilla. The species described by Hanley under 

 the name of prora and cited by Gabb is a Eurytellina. 



Genus METIS H. and A. Adams. 



f Capsa (sp.) Bruguiere, Encycl. Meth., i., pi. 231, figs. I a-cf 1797; species undeter- 

 minable fide Bory St. Vincent, 1827. 



Capsa Lamarck, Prodrome Nouv. Class. Coq., p. 84, 1799! sole ex. Tellina angulata 

 Linne. 



Caspa Bosc, Hist. Nat. Coq., p. 18, 1802 (err. typ. for Capsa). 



Not Capsa Humphrey, Mus. Calon., p. 59, May, 1797 (=Cyrena Keraudrenii Me 

 Morch); nor Capsa Lamarck, Systeme d'un Nouv. class., p. 126, 1801 (= Asaphts 

 Modeer, 1793); nor Capsa Lam., An. s. Vert., v., 553, 1818 (=Iphigenia Schum., 



1817). 

 Tellina (sp.) Bruguiere. Encycl. Meth., ii.. pi. 287, fig. 3, pi- 290, fig- M, 1797; Lamarck, 



An. s. Vert., v., pp. 530, 531, 1818. 



