TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 

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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



p. 687, 1758; Born, Test. Mus. Vindob., p. 69. pi. v., fig. 4, 1780; Chemn., Conch. 



Cab., vii., p. 52, pi. xliii., figs. 448-9, 1784. 

 Fimbria Megerle, Mag. Ges. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin, p. 52, 1811 (F. magna Megerle) ; Blain- 



ville, Man. Malac, p. 551, 1825; not of Bohadsch (Nudibranchiata), 1761. 

 Idothea Schumacher, Essai, p. 160, 1817 ; sole ex. Venus Ambriata L. ; not Idotea Fa- 



bricius (Crustacea), 1793. 

 '^Bernayia Cossmann, Cat. Illustr., p. 20, 1887; ex. B. siibarata Cossm., op. cit., pi. iii., 



figs. 6-7, 1887; not Bernayia Jousseaume, 1884. 

 f'^Parvicorbis Cossmann, Cat. Illustr., Suppl., p. 32, 1892, = i?«-noj'ja Cossm. non Jouss. 



The genus Gafrarium of Bolten comprised, among the identifiable species 

 catalogued under that name, one species subsequently made the type of Corbis 

 Cuvier, six species based on varieties of Venus pectinata Gmelin (=: Crista 

 Romer, 1857; Circe pectinata of authors), and one peculiar Venus {reticulata 

 Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. x., p. 687, 1758; Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., vi., p. 367, pi. 

 xxxvi., figs. 382-3, 1782), which is of the same type as those reserved to carry 

 the name Cytherea Bolten. In my " Synopsis of the Lucinacea" (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1901), not having reviewed the Veneridce, I proposed to retain the 

 name Gafrarium for the species of Venus like V. reticulata. But since this is a 

 Cytherea the name must rest on one of the other groups if it is to be retained, 

 and, since six of Bolten's nine identifiable species are referable to the group 

 typified by Circe pectinata, it would seem that the change must best be made 

 here, though in so doing my hope of avoiding changes in well-accepted names 

 is frustrated. 



The subgenus Bernayia Cossmann non Jousseaume, = Parvicorbis Coss- 

 mann, I know only by the figures ; it seems from them to be probable that it 

 should find a place near Scintilla and its allies, and not in the Lucinidce, none of 

 which gape. 



The American species, so far as known, are all Eocene, few in number, 

 and rare as individuals. 



Corbis undata Conrad. 



Corbis undata Conrad, Fos. Tert. Form., p. 41, 1833; Harris reprint, p. 41, pi. xix., fig. 6; 

 Am. Journ. Sci., 2d Ser., i., p. 401, pi. iv., fig. II, 1846. 



Corbis undiilata Conrad, Morton, Synopsis Org. Rem., App., p. 7, 1834 (lapsus for un- 

 data). 



Corbis distans Conrad, Fos. Tert. Form., p. 41, 1833; Morton, Syn. Org. Rem., App., p. 

 7, 1834; Am. Journ. Sci., 2d Sen, i., p. 401, pi. iv., fig. 11, 1846 (young shell). 



Gafrarium distans Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., i., p. 9, 1865. 



Claiborne sands at Claiborne, Alabama. 



