Ill MOLLUSCA OF THE GuLF OF MEXICO 79 



3, p. 1061, 1900 ; Vanatta, Proc. A. N. S. Phila., 55, p. 

 757, 1903 ; Clark, Pleistocene of Maryland, Md. Geol. 

 Surv., p. 201, 1906. 

 for}n'cataSa.y, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2, p. 319, 1822. 



Distribution. — Prince Edward's Island to Nicaragua, burrow- 

 ing near low water line. Pleistocene to Recent. . Gulf 

 coast. — Ft. Barranca, Indian Pass, Crooked Isl. (Calhoun 

 Co.), Fla. ; Cameron, La. ; Galveston, Corpus Christi, 

 Matagorda Bay, Tex. Pleistocene : New Orleans pump- 

 ing station No. 7. 



Note. — Tj^pe of section Petricolaria Stoliczka, characterized by 

 transversely elongated shell and great length of siphons. 



Genus TELLIMA Linnaeus 

 interrupta Wood, General Conchology, 1815 ; Dall, Bull. 37, U. 



S. N. M., p. 60, 1889 ; Proc. U. S. N. M., 23, p. 293, 1901. 

 7naculosa Lamarck, An. s. Vert., 1818. 

 a?iiom Yhilippi, Hanley, Thes. Conch., p. 224, pi. 58, f, 74, 



1846; Dall, B. M. C. Z., 9, p. 134, '81; 12, p. 277, 



1886. 

 Distribution. — North Carolina to Brazil. Gulf coast. — West 



of Florida., 19 fms., dredged S. S. Bache. Var. mexicana 



Petit is more slender than the typical form. 

 laevigata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat,, ed. X, 1758 ; Dall, Proc. U. S. N. 



M., 6, p. 338, 1883; Bull. 37, U. S. N. M., p. 60, '89 ; 



Siugley, 4th Ann. Rept. Texas., p. 329, '93 ; Dall, Proc. 



U. S. N. M., 23, p. 293, 1901. 

 IcBvis Krebs, West. Ind. Mar. Sh., 1864. Not of Rumphius; 



nor of Wood which =fausta Donovan . 

 Distribution. — Florida to Guadeloupe. Gulf coast. — Tampa, 



Sarasota Bay, Fla. ; Texas, 

 lineata Turton, Conch. Diet. British Isls., p. 168, pi. 4, f. 16, 



1819 ; Sowerby, in Conch. Icon., 17, pi. 18, f. %() a-c \ 



Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. N. M., p. 60, 1889 ; Proc. U. S. N. 



M., 23, p. 292, 1901. 

 brasiliana Lamarck, 18 18, not of vSpengler, 1798 ; striata 



Montagu, 1803, not Chemnitz ; tenuis Conrad, 1834 ; de- 



