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Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 55, p. 756, '03. 

 Venus edentula Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. 7, pi. 40, f. 427-429, 



1784. Not of Linnaeus, 1758. 

 Lucina edentula Reeve, Conch. Icon., Liicina, pi. 2, fig. 9, 



1850 : Heilprin, Tr. Wagner Inst, i, p. 102, '86. 

 Loripes edentula var. ckrysostoma Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. N. 



M., p. 52, '89. 

 Distribution. — Florida to Santa Cruz, shallow water. Mio- 



cene(?) to Recent. Gulf coast. — Tampa, Ft. Barranca, 



St. Joseph's Bay and Crooked Island, Fla. Pliocene : Ca- 



loosahatchie. 

 phiiippiana Reeve, Conch. Icon., Lucina, pi. 5, f. 22>a-b, 1850 ; 



Dall, T. W. I., 3, p. 1355, 1903. 

 edentula Philippi, '47. Not of Linnaeus, nor Reeve. 

 sehranijni Qrosse, Jour. de. Conchy., 24, p. 166, '76. 

 Loripes edentula Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 6, p. 338, '83 ; 



Singley, Fourth Ann. Rept. Tex., p. 326, '92 ; Mitchell, 



List Texas Shells, p. 14. 

 Distribution. — West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Pleistocene 



to Recent. Gulf coast. — Sarasota Bay, Fla., Matagorda 



and Corpus Christi Bays, Tex. 

 Note. — Both this and the preceding genus have been confused 



with L. edentula Linn. According to Hanle}^ the true 



edentula is oriental. 



Genus MYRTAEA Turton 

 compressa Dall, B. M. C. Z., Harvard Coll., 9, p. 135, 1881. (as 



Loripes); Idem, 12, p. 266, pi. 14, f. 2, '86; Bull. 37, U. 



S. N. M., p. 52, pi. 14, f. 2, '89 ; Proc. U. S. N. M., 23, 



p. 804, 1901. 

 Distribution. — Cuba and Sombrero Isl., 72-424 fms. ; 'Gulf of 



Mexico off Cape San Antonio, 413 fms. Possibly a variety 



of the following species. 

 lens Verrill and Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., 5, p. 569 ; 6, p- 



259, 1880, (jAS, Loripes); Amer. Jour. Sci., 20, p. 4; Dall, 



B. M. C. Z., 12, p. 266; Bull. 37, U. S. N. M., p. 52, 



