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im.— ren?is glabra, Schafhseutl (Sud-Bayerns Letli. Geog., 1863, p. 171, pi. 43, %. 4), 

 has the general form of a small Cytherea or Merceuaria, but I am afraid further identification is 

 hopeless. 



From Africa the following species have been recorded, mostly based upon insufficient casts. 



110-120. — Venus Butrugei, Cleopatra, Mousm, Reynesi, Mauritanica, Desvauxi, Lelettrei, Nail, 

 Forgemolli, Didonis, Fatima, Cherhonneaui, and Saportce of H. Coquand (Constant, pp. 193-195), 

 nearly all from the '' etage Eotomagien.'' It would be a vain task to speculate upon the correct 

 generic determination of such worthless materials. Most of them may be Cytherece and Caryates, 

 some like V, Delettrei and Forgemolli belong to Cyprimeria or perhaps to Fripliyla. 



The following are from America. 



131-143. — Cyclina? circularis, M. and H. ; (Bosinia) Cyprimeria densafa, Con.; Bos. 

 depressa, Con.; (Bos.) Cyprimeria excavata, Morton; Dos. Haddo7ifielde7isis,'hQ^ = Cyprimeria 

 cretacea, Con., (Am. Journ. Conch., iii, p. 9); Bos. oUiquata, Con.; Bos ftemds, Meek; 

 Bione Belawarensis, Gabb ; B. Etifalensis, Con.; B. Lamarensis, Shum. ; B. Beweyi, M. and 

 H. ; B. leonensis, Con.; B. Missouriana, Mort. ; B, Nehrascensis, M. and H. ; B. orbi- 

 eulata, H. and M. ; B. Owenana, M. and H. ; B.? pellucida, M. and H.; (B,) Texana, 

 Con. (=? Cyprim. Texana, Hom.) ; B. tippana, Con.; B. ? Meekana, Gabb.; B.r Ripley- 

 ^/^a, Gabb; i). .^ tenuis. Hall and M. ; Venus ? sub-lamellosa, Shum. (Vide Me ek's Check-list 

 of Inv. N. Am. fossils, Smith. Misc. Coll., No. 177, 1864, p. 13). 



144-159.— From Conrad^s '' Check-list^^ &c., (Smith. Misc. Coll., No. 200, 1866, pp. 6,&c.), 

 that author's older eocene species probably have to be added — Bosiniopsis alta, Con. -, B.Meekii, 

 Con.; B. lenticularis , Rogers, Venus? lamellifera, Con.; V. securis, Shum.; Bione brevilineata, 

 Con.; B. Conradiana, Gabb; B. Californiana, B. eversa, lenis, liciata, Oregonensis oi Conrad, 

 B. ovata, (Rogers) ; B. perbrevis and Uvasana, Con., and B. varia?is, Gabb. 



160-181. — In the 2nd vol. of the Palseont. of California, pp. 209, &c., Gabb gives a list of 

 all Californian cretaceous fossils. In this list, besides those given already, some of the species 

 having been previously described by the same author in vol. i of the same publication, occur — 

 V. Veatchii, G. ; V. lenticularis, G. ; V. tetrahedra, G. ; V. (Bqidlateralis, G. ; — Cliione angulata, G. 

 Ch. varians, G. j—^Meretrix (= Cytherea) lens, G. ; M. Rornii, G. ; M. longa, G. ; M. arata, G. 

 M. ovalis, G. ; M. ? frag His, G. ; — Caryatis nitida, G. ; — Bosinia elevata, G. ; ? B. temm. Meek 

 B. pertenuis, G. ; B. gyrata, G. ; B. inflata, G. ; — Tapes Conradiana, G. ; ? T. qiiadrata, G. ; ? 

 T. cretacea, G., and Fripliyla umbonata, Gabb. 



182. — Tapes Hilgardi, Shum., (vide Gabb, 1. cit., p. 265,) only provisionally referred to Tapes^ 

 is from Mexico. 



183. — Cyprimeria Peruviana, Con., (Am. Jour. Conch., ii, p. 105,) from Peru. 



184. — V.(Auca) Jucasiana f d''Orb., (Voy. Astr. Pal., 1847, pi. ii, figs. 9-10,) may be a 

 Callista, a great deal resembling our Indian C. fabulina, n. sp. D'Orbigny seemed to have taken 

 a peculiar fancy to the name Aiica, and made in this and another instance great confusion with it. 

 He describes in "Pal. de PAm. merid. (1842) ,'' p. 122, a 7(^i?^5-like shell as T. <^?^ca, supposed to 

 be a tertiary fossil from Patagonia; subsequently, in 1847, he names quite a different shell, V. auca, 

 in " Voy. de P Astrolabe,'-' and at last he quotes (Prod, ii, p. 237,) V. Aucasiana, adding the reference 

 of the tertiary V. Auca in the Pal. Am. merid. No version "of this confusion appears satisfactory. 

 The most likely thing is, that d'Orbigny, wishing in the Prodrome to correct the cretaceous species 

 V. Auca of 1847, the name having been applied for a different species in 1842, quoted by mistake 

 with it the reference of the latter instead of the former. This explanation would be strengthened 

 by the fact that the name V. Aucasiana does not appear to have been published before, and is first 

 used in the Prodrome. 



185.-_^. a/^, d'Orb., (Pal. Am, merid., 1842, p. 82,) may be a Caryatis. 



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