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Family Venerj dae — continued. 

 Genus Dosinia — continued. 



Section Phacosoma Jukes-Browne. 

 Dosinia caerulea (Reeve, 1850). 



subrosea (Gray, 1835). 



Genus Antigona Schumacher, 1817. 

 Subgenus Clausina Brown, 1827. 

 Section Ventricola Romer. 



Antigona oblonga Hanley, 18 — . 

 Genus Venus Linne, 1758. 



Subgenus Chione Megerle, 1811. 

 Section Chione s. str. 



Venus stutchburyi Gray, 1828. 

 Subgenus Clausinella Gray 



Section Chamelea March, 1853. 



Venus crassa Quoy and Gaimard, 1835. 

 Subgenus Salacia Jukes-Browne, 1914. 

 Venus lameUata Lamarck, 1818. 



yatei Gray, 1835. 



Genus Protothaca Dall. 



Subgenus Protothaca s. str. 



Protothaca costata Quoy and Gaimard, 1835. 

 Genus Gomphixa March, 1853. 



Gomphina maorum E. A. Smith, 1902. 

 Genus Tapes Megerle, 1811. 



Subgenus Amygdala Romer, 1864. 



Tapes intermedia (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835;. 

 Genus Venerupis Lamarck, 1818. 

 Subgenus Venerupis s. str. 



Venerupis elegans Deshayes, 1854. 

 Subgenus Pullastra Sowerby, 1826. 



Venerupis fabagella (Deshayes, 1854). 

 siliqua Deshayes, 1854. 



The most casual glance will show the discord between the two classifications, 

 and I propose only to note the few errors I have observed wi h regard to 

 the nomenclature adopted by both. Firstly, Jukes-Browne had not studied 

 some New Zealand species, so chat 1 cannot indicate the positions assigned 

 to every New Zealand Venerid. Secondly, he has rejected Bolten's generic 

 names, and abrogated the law of priority when convenient to his desires. 



The co-ordination of the two systems as applied to Neozelanic forms, 

 taking Suter's association of species as approximately correct, and making 

 the necessary alterations in the nomenclature, would read thus : — 



Genus Dosinia Scopoli. 1777. 

 Section Dosinia s. str. 



Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850). 

 Section Dosinorbis Dall, 1902 = Phacosoma Jukes- Browne, 1914. 



Dosinia caendea (Reeve, 1850). 



subrosea (Gray, 1835). 



Section Auslrodosinia Dall, 1902. 



Dosinia anus (Philippi, 1848). 

 Section Dosinisca Dall, 1902. 



Dosinia greyi Zittel, 1864. 



