Iredalb. — Suter's "Manual of the Neiv Zealand Mollusca." 497 



member of this genus. Gari has long been used by British malacologists, 

 and probably has been rejected by Austral-Neozelanic workers through 

 the influence of Dall's writings. Under the present nomenclatural laws 

 I am unable to find any cause for its non-acceptance. 



I would suggest that possibly the typical species of Gari may prove 

 generically separable from species of Psammobia, and both may later be 

 preserved ; but on the present basis and facts Gari claims recognition, and 

 Psammobia must pass into disuse generically as a synonym of Gari. 



Genus Cleidothaerus (Stutchbury, 1830). [P. 1033.] 



When Stutchbury proposed the above genus-name (Zool. Journ., vol. v, 

 1830, p. 97) for the species C. chamoides (p. 98, Tab. Suppl., xlii, figs. 5-8), 

 from Port Jackson, he gave a footnote reading, " Since this article was 

 sent to press, it has been ascertained that De Roissy has named and 

 characterized this remarkable genus, though evidently from incomplete 

 specimens. He has called it in French k Camoslree,' a name so entirely 

 inapplicable that I hesitate not to retain the appellation of Cleidothaerus, 

 by which I had designated it. There is nothing in the shell to connect it 

 with Ostrea." Reference to the place given by Suter as the introduction of 

 Chamostrea — viz., Blainville (Man. de Malac, 1825, p. 632) — shows this 

 to be the introduction noted bv Stutchbury of " Camoslree de Roissv" only, 

 no Latin name being proposed. 



Stutchbury's genus-name must therefore come into use, as Chamostrea 

 was not validly proposed until a much later date 



