
COTTON—SOME TERTIARY Fossi, MOLLUscs 663 
CarpiTa compra (Tate). 
Mytilicardia compta Tate 1886. Trans. Roy, Soe. 8. Aust., 8, 149, pl. 12, fig. 2. 
An Adelaidean fossil has been listed from the Abattoirs Bore as Cardita 
preissi Menke 1843, which is a Recent shell from Western Australia, the name 
heing a direct synonym of Cardilu incrassuta Sowerby 1825. Vereo 1912 records 
il from Geraldton and Iredale 1914 from Montebello Island. The Adelaidean 
shell seems more nearly related to Cardita compla Tate, from Muddy Creek, 
Victoria, 
EPIcopaKIA SALEBROSA (Hooper Woods). 
Codakia salebrosa Hooper Woods 1931, Trans. Roy, Soe. 8. Aust., 55, 149, pl. 8, 
figs. 4, 5. 
Specimens of this species are found in the Salisbury Bore 330 feet Adelaidean. 
The genus belongs to the family Lucinidae of which Lucina Lamarck 1799 has 
for the genotype Lucina edentula Linne from Jamaica. Codakia Seopoli 1777, 
genotype C. orbicularis Linne from West Africa was once used for the large 
Acstralian shells, now classed under Pexocodakia, genotype Lucina rugifera 
Reeve 1850 from New South Wales. The fossil species is related to E'picodakia 
gunnamatta from New South Wales and belongs to the same genus. 
MintrHoiw8a HORA nom. nov. 
Dosinia grandis Hooper Woods 1931. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust,, 55, 148, pl. 7, 
figs, 5, 6. 
This name, given to a species described from the Ahattoirs Bore, is preoeeupied 
by Dosinia grandis Nelson 1870, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sei., 2, 201, from the Tertiary 
of Peru, The new name Milthoidea hora is introduced here for this large charac- 
teristic species of the Lucinidae. 
DIvALUCINA ENTYPOMA Sp. nov. 
Plate xx, figs. 9, 10. 
Orbienlar, subinflated, moderately thick, with devaricate sculpture; the 
circular outline is truncate posteriorly and the umbones are at the angle and 
middle of the two dorsal margins which form an obtuse angle. Height 20 mm., 
diameter 20 mm. 
Loe.: Abattoirs Bore, holotype, Adelaidean. 
Remarks: The name Divaricella quadrisculata d’Orbigny 1847, Recent, West 
Columbia, was introduced into Australian Tertiary Molluscan nomenclature by 
