Tertiary Fossils. 237*' 



Several examples showing typical surface ornament are found 

 here. 



Cudmore Collection. 



Subgenus Protocardium, Beyridi. 

 Cardium (Protocardium) ajitisemigranuint urn , McCoy. 

 Cardium {Protocardium) antisemir/rajn/Iafiun, McCoy, 1877,. 

 Prod. Pal. Vict., Dec. V. p. 16, pi. XLIV. Figs. 2, 3. 

 Represented here by an internal cast. 

 Cudmore Collection. 



Fam. VENERIDAE. 



Genus Venus. Subgenus Chione, Megerle. 



Venus (Chione) cainozoicus, T. Woods sp. 



Venus {Chione) cainozoica, T. Woods, 1877, Papers and Proc. 

 R. Soc. Tas. for 1876, p. 113. 



Chione cainozoicns, T. Woods sp., Tate, 1887, Trans. R. Soc. S. 

 Austr. vol. IX. p. 156, pi. XVI. Figs. 3r/, h. 



Two examples. Cudmore Collection. 



Venus (Chione) ? hormophora, Tate, sp. 



Chione hormophora, Tate, 1887, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr., vol. 

 IX., p. 155, pi. XV. Figs. 1«, h. 



A cast and also an impressed mould of the shell was found. The 

 former shows the straight ventral region, and the latter the orna- 

 mentation, of the above typical Table Cape species. 



Cudmore Collection. 



Genus Dosinea, Scopoli. 

 Dosinea johnsttmi^ Tate. 



Dosinea johnstoni, Tate, 1887, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., vol. IX. 

 p. 161, pi. XIV. Figs. 9 and. 12. 



A mould of a shell of a Dosinea in white limestone shows by a 

 wax squeeze the characteristic costation of the alx)ve species. The 

 concentric ridges measure 20 in a breadth of 10 mm. and are ele- 

 vated rather than depressed and rolled over to become almo.st con- 

 fluent, as in D. densilineata, Pritchard.3 The length of the present 

 example, if complete, would measure al)Out 50 mm. 1). jo/insfoni 

 has a long vertical lango, fioiii Balcombian to Kalimnan (Balcombe 

 Bay, Table Caj)e, TppiT Muddy T'reek). 



Chandler and Cudmore Collections. 



J. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict.. Vol. VIIL. 1896, p. 135. pi. IV.. FIfirs. 5-7, 



