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20. Sphmnum, oocidentale, Pr., Proo. A. N. S. Phil. 1860, p. 295, = C. ovalis, Pr., 



Boat. Proc. 1852, p. 276 (nom. preoc.),=' Sph. ovale, Stn.,' Add. Gen. vol. ii. 

 p. 450. Hah. New York to Georgia ; Vermont to Wisconsin ; Hell-gate 

 River, W. T. 



21. Sphcenum nohih, Gld. {Cyclas n.), Boat. Proc. 1855, p. 229 [Otia, p. 218]. San 



Pedro, Wehh. 



22. SphcBiium patella, Gld. {Cyclas p.), Bost. Proc. 1850, p.292 [Otia, p. 86 ; E. E. 



Moll. f. 527, type not returned to S. I.] Oregon. 



23. SpihaiHum /S^oAiam, Baird [P. Z. S. 1863, p. 69, f. 12, 13 : anUa, p. 605]. B. Col. 



24. Spharium tumidum, Baird [P. Z. S. 1863, p. 69, f. 11 : antea, p. 605]. B. Col. 



25. Sphcsrium meridionale, Pr., Proc. Ac. N. S. Phil. 1861, p. 414. Panama ; Mus. 



Prime. 



26. Spheerium kniiada, Gld. (Lucina * I.'), Bost. Proc. 1850, p. 256. California. 



27. Spharittm subtransversum, Pr., P. Z. S. 1860, p. 322. Mexico. 



28. Piddium abditum, Hald. \yvi}oi\= Cyclas minor, C. B. Ad. Bost. Proc. 1841, p. 48, 



= P. obscurum, Pr., Bost. Proc.'l851, p. 161,-|-P. KuHzn, Pr., p. 162, + P. 

 zonatum, Pr., p. 162, -|-P. regtdare, Pr., Bost. 11. vi. 363, pi. 12. f. 11-13, 1853, 

 + P. notatum, Pr., Bost. II. vi. 365, pi. 12. f. 20-22, 1852, -|-P. amplum + P 

 resartum, Ingalls, MS.,+P. rubrum-\-P. plenum, Lewis, MS., +P. retusum, 

 Pr., P. Z. S. 1859, p. 322. 



29. Pisidium occidentale, Newc. [Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sc. 1861, p. 94]. San Fran- 



cisco, Powell. 



120. Of the tertiary fossils throwing light on existing species no addi- 

 tional information has yet been published. We cannot but hope that the 

 researches of Mr. Gabb, on the fossils collected by the Californian Geological 

 Survey, will develope relations of great interest between the existing and 

 former conditions of the continent. The Astorian fossils described by Mr. 

 Conrad from the U. S. Exploring Expedition (vol. x., Geology, Philadelphia, 

 1849), and tabulated in the first Eeport, p. 367, belong to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, but were not discovered there in 1860. All of them, however (in- 

 eluding the indeterminate species), are figured in the atlas of plates. They 

 resemble the fossils of the Pacific Railroad Expeditions in being very imper- 

 fect, for which reason the following criticisms may prove erroneous. The 

 general aspect of the collection betokens the Miocene period. 



My a ahrvpta, Conr., may be the young of Glycimeris generosa, Gld, 



Thracia trapszoides, Conr., may be curta, Conr. 



Solemya ventricosa, Conr., has the aspect of a large Lazaria. 



Tellina arctata, Conr., closely resembles Macoma, var. expansa, 



Tellina emacerata, Cour., is perhaps Bodegensis, Hds. 



lAtcina acidilineata, Conr., appears to be horealis, Linn. 



Cardita subtenta, Conr.,= Venericardia horeaUs, Conr. 



Nucula divaricata, Con.r.,=Acila castrensis, Hds. 



Pectuncidus patulits, Conr., may be septentrionalis, Midd. 



Pectuncuhcs nitens, Conr., resembles Psephis tantitta, Gld. 



Pecten propatulus, Conr. A very fine specimen, enclosed in a large nodule 

 from Oregon, was presented to the Brit. Mus. by Mr. C. Pace. If not identical 

 with Amusium eaurinum, Gld., it is most closely allied, especially to the 

 Japanese form. 



* Mr. Prime assigns no reason for changing Dr. Gould's Lucina into a Cyclas, nor any 

 authority for " California." He was, perhaps, misled by the artist's engraved references to 

 the figures 528, a, b, where he has drawn a rule, referring to the Cyclades above, instead of 

 writing Lucina. It is assigned to " ?Coast of Patagonia" in ' Otia,' p. 63, and to " ?R. 

 Janeiro" in ' E. B. Moll.,' p. 414. In each place the shell is compared to an Astarte or 

 Cyprina, with lateral teeth. The type was not returned to the Smithsonian Institution ; 

 but the diagnosis states that it is " chalky, thickened within the deep and jagged pallial 

 Ime, sculpture faint but decussated, and margin finely crenulated," — characters more con- 

 sistent with Lucina, a. g. Myrtma, than with Cycla&. If the type cannot be recovered, per- 

 haps the species may be dropped, as it is not the Lucina {Myrtea) lenticula, Kve. 



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