318 Transactions. 



Specimens of this shell, kindly named by Professor W. H. 

 Dall, were dredged off Little Barrier Island in about 20 fathoms 

 by Mr. R. H. Shakespear. This forms a very interesting ad- 

 dition to the fauna of New Zealand. 



Dosinia coerulea, Reeve (1850) 



Artemis coerulea, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. vi, 1850, fig. 25. 

 Dosinia coerulea, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Victoria, vol. xvi (n. s.), 1903, p. 133. 



The first valve I ever saw of this shell was obtained near 

 Nelson. Later on a number of specimens, but all empty shells, 

 were collected by Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Colonial 

 Museum, and he very kindly gave me a few examples. These 

 were kindly named by Professor W. H. Dall. I reproduce 

 here the diagnosis given by Reeve : — 



" The blue-tinged Artemis : Shell orbicular, convexly tumid 

 in the middle, posteriorly slightly angled, thick, concentrically 

 finely elevately striated, area of the ligament rather broadly 

 excavated, lunule cordate, whitish, tinged with pink and blue 

 towards the umbones. 



" Hab. Raine's Island, Torres Strait (Captain Ince). 



" A solid species in which the concentric striae are not more 

 prominent at the sides than elsewhere, whilst the delicate pink 

 and blue colouring about the umbones is characteristic." 



The specimens I have seen had lost the pink and blue colour- 

 ing, being so-called " dead shells." The species also occurs 

 at Port Phillip and Western Port, Victoria, but it seems to 

 be a rather rare shell. 



Tapes fabagella, Deshayes (1853). 

 For full reference see Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. 



Victoria, vol. xvi (n. s.), 1903, p. 134. 



This species has turned up in a gathering from Island Bay, 

 Cook Strait, and has to be added again to the list of New Zea- 

 land Mollusca (Hedlev, Records Austral. Museum, vol. v, 1904, 

 p. 89). 



Tellina angulata, Hutton (1885). 

 Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvii, 1885, p. 322 ; Pliocene 



Mollusca of N.Z., in Macleay Mem. Vol., 1903, p. 80, pi. ix., 



figs. 86, a, b. 



Several valves of this shell were collected near Stewart 

 Island, and two kindly given to me by Mr. A. Hamilton a good 

 many years back. They are light-brown-coloured, but other- 

 wise there is no difference between these recent valves and 

 those from the Pliocene of Wanganui. There is a slight error 



