488 Transactions. 



On p. 196 of the same work both Condylocardia crassicosta and C. co»- 

 centrica were described from Stewart Island. This number was received at 

 the British Museum on the 10th November, 1896. On p. 194 Hochstetteria 

 costata, and on p. 195 Hochstetteria meleagrina, are described from the same 

 place. These pages should be added to the incomplete references given on 

 pp. 857 and 859. 



I think "St. Helena," given in the distribution of the genus, is 

 incorrect. 



Genus Lucinida (D'Orbigny, 1847). [P. 912.] 



This name, proposed in the Voy. Amer. Merid. Moll., p. 588, 1847, with 

 type designated as Lucina cryptella D'Orbigny, id. ib., must replace Loripes. 

 This name is cited by Suter as of Cuvier, 1817 ; but it was used by Oken 

 (Lelirb. fur Naturg., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 231, 1815) two years earlier, and it 

 was originally used by Poli in the Test. Sicil., vol. i, Introd., p. 31, 1795. 

 as a genus-name for the animal of Tellina lactea Linne, while the shell was 

 generieally named Loripoderma. This peculiar double usage of two generic 

 names — one for the animal, the other for the shell— has necessitated the 

 rejection of the Polian names. I find that Dall accepted Loripes, and 

 Suter's acceptance is due to his initiative, but in a parallel case Dall rejects 

 Callista of Poli. 1 cannot see any other course open than the rejection of 

 all of Poli"s names ; the acceptance would necessitate many unpleasant 

 innovations. 



Modiolarca minutissima Iredale. [P. 926.] 



Omit this name from the synonymy of Lasaea miliaris Phil. My shell 

 is a ''Modiolarca, 7 ' and a valid species, quite unlike any other member of 

 the genus. I do not understand Suter' s reference of it to Lasaea. 



Kellia balaustina Gould. 1861. [P. 928.] 



Omit this name and reference from the synonym}' of Lasaea scalaris 

 Philippi, 1847. Since Suter so placed it the type has been examined by 

 Hedley, who has recorded (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. xxxviii, 1913, 

 p. 268) that it is the species he had recently described as Cyamiomactra 

 nitida (loc. cit., xxxiii, 1908, p. 477, pi. ix. figs. 19, 20), over which name 

 it has, of course, priority', and has been brought into use 



Tellina liliana nora. nov. [P. 948.] 



I propose this name for the New Zealand shell described by Quoy and 

 Gaimard under the name Tellina lactea. which is invalidated by Tellina 

 lactea Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 676, 1758. Suter has used Tellina 

 deltoidalis Lamarck, proposed for an Australian shell, writing, " I have 

 compared New Zealand and Australian specimens of the same size, and 

 could not find the slightest difference between the two.'" Nevertheless, 

 with long series the differences are well observed, and Mr. E. A. Smith, 

 I.S.O., of the British Museum, the greatest British authority on bivalve 

 molluscs, unhesitatingly separated the Australian from the Neozelanic 

 species when recently he had occasion to investigate their nomination. He 

 has not published his conclusions, but the shells are named and arranged 

 in the British Museum collection under Lamarck's and Quoy and Gaimard's 

 names 



