50 



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Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 55, p. 756, '03. 

 Venus edentula Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. 7, pi. 40, f. 427-429, 



1784. Not of I^inngeus, 1758. 

 Lucina edentula Reeve, Conch. Icon., Lucina, pi. 2, fig. 9, 



1850: Heilprin, Tr. Wagner Inst. 1, p. 102, '86. 

 Loripes edentula var. chrysostoma Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. N. 



M., p. 52, '89. 



Distribution. — Florida to Santa Cruz, shallow water. Mio- 

 cene(?) to Recent. Gulf coast. — Tampa, Ft. Barranca, 

 St. Joseph's Bay and Crooked Island, Fla. Pliocene : Ca- 

 loosahatchie. 



philippiana Reeve, Conch. Icon., Lucina, pi. 5, f. 2$a-b, 1850 ; 

 Dall, T. W. I., 3, p. 1355, 1903. 

 edentula Philippi, '47. Not of Linnaeus, nor Reeve. 

 seh rammi Crosse, Jour. de. Conchy., 24, p. 166, '76. 

 Loripes edentula Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 6, p. 338, '83 ; 

 Singley, Fourth Ann. Rept. Tex., p. 326, '92 ; Mitchell, 

 List Texas Shells, p. 14. 

 Distribution. — West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Pleistocene 

 to Recent. Gulf coast. — Sarasota Bay, Fla., Matagorda 

 and Corpus Christi Bays, Tex. 

 Note. — Both this and the preceding genus have been confused 

 with L. edentula Linn. According to Hanle)^ the true 

 edentula is oriental. 



Genus MYRTAEA Turton 

 compressa Dall, B. M. C. Z., Harvard Coll., 9, p. 135, 1881. (as 

 Loripes); Idem, 12, p. 266, pi. 14, f. 2, '86; Bull. 37, U. 

 S. N. M., p. 52, pi. 14, f. 2, '89 ; Proc. U. S. N. M., 23, 

 p. 804, 1 901. 



Distribution. — Cuba and Sombrero Isl., 72-424 fms. ; [Gulf of 

 Mexico off Cape San Antonio, 413 fms. Possibly a variety 

 of the following species. 

 Bens Verrill and Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., 5, p. 569 ; 6, p- 

 259, 1880, (as Loripes); Amer. Jour. Sci., 20, p. 4 ; Dall, 

 B. M. C. Z., 12, p. 266; Bull. 37, U. S. N. M., p. 52, 



