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The field covered by the following catalogue includes the 

 recent littoral species from Tampa, western Florida, to Galves- 

 ton and Corpus Christi, Texas; the recent deep water and abys- 

 sal species dredged by the Steamer Blake in the Gulf of Mexico, 

 south to the Straits of Florida and the Channel of Yucatan; the 

 Pleistocene, Pliocene, and a few Miocene species from Gulf State 

 wells; the Pleistocene species of Grand Chenier; the marine Pli- 

 ocene species of North Creek, western Florida, and the curious 

 brackish water Pliocene species of Alexandria, Louisiana, and of 

 Burkeville, Texas, which are closely related to those of the Sa- 

 tilla River, Georgia. 



MOLLUSCA 



CLASS PELECYPODA 

 ORDER PRIONODESMACEA 



Genus SOLEMYA Lamarck 

 occidentalis Deshayes 



Solenomya occidentalisY)^^.^ Jour, de Conch., vol.7, p, 



186, pl.7, fig. 6, 1858. 

 occidentalis DdiW, Bull. 24, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 274, 1885; 

 Bull. 37, U. S. Nat. Mus. p. 46, 1889. 

 Distribution. — Gulf of Mexico to Guadeloupe. Recent. Shal- 

 low water. 

 Gulf Coast.— Western Florida (Dall). 



Genus NUCULA Lamarck 

 proxima Say 



obliqua Say, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 2, p. 40, 1820. (Not 

 obliqua Lamarck , 1 8 1 9 ) . 



proxima Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. , vol. 2, p. 270, 

 1822; Tuomej^ and Holmes, Pleoic. Fos. S. C, p. 53, pi. 

 17, figs. 7-9, 1855; Holmes, Post-Plio. Fos. S. C. p. 17, 

 pi. 3, fig. 6, i860; Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. Nat, Mus., p. 42, 

 pi. 16, fig. 4, 1889 ; Trans. Wag. Inst. Sci. 3, pt. 4, p 

 574, 1898; Clark, Pleistocene of Maryland, Md. Geol. 

 Surv., p. 207, pi. 65, figs. 1-4, 1906. 



