264 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, XI., 



Nucula cumingii Hinds. 

 (Plate xvi., figs.7, 8, 9.) 



Nucula cumingii Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc , 1843, p.97; Id., 

 Hanley, Thes. Conch., iii., 1860, p.157, P1.2l9, fig. 117. 



H. loringi Ad & Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 427. 



It recently occurred to me* that perhaps the unfigured Nucula 

 loringi might be an earlier name for JV. superba. At the British 

 Museum, I found not only that it was quite distinct, but that 

 N. loringi had been determined by Mr. Smith to be a synonym 

 of N. cumingii Hinds. Under this prior name, the species lias 

 not yet been reported from Australia. The type of N. loringi, 

 from Keppel Bay, is here figured. It is in length 18, height 

 12, and diameter of single valve 4 mm 



A rca pistachia Lamarck. 



Area pistachia Lamarck, Anim. s. vert, vi., 1819, p. 41; Id., 

 Smith, Journ. of Malacol., xii., 1905, p.27; Id., op. cit., liii., 1906, 

 p. 303; Id., Lamy, Journ. de Conch , lii., 1904, p.134. 



In these Proceedings (xxix , p. 202), I suggested that the 

 description of A. pistachia agreed with the subsequent A. radula 

 Smith, from the same locality; and hence that the latter should 

 be suppressed as a synonym. Mr. Smith dissented from this 

 conclusion. Dr. Lamy has failed to find an example of A. 

 pistachia in the Lamarckian Collection of the Paris Museum. I 

 searched, in vain, for a representative of A. pistachia in the 

 Lamarckian Collection of the Geneva Museum. Though my 

 interpretation of A. pistachia still seems to me a reasonable one, 

 yet, on the grounds that the species has never yet been figured, 

 and that the type has disappeared, I recommend that Area 

 pistachia be written off as a lost species. 



Glycymeris fringilla Angas 



Axincea fringilla Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 6 12, PI. 40, 

 f.10; Id., Lamy, Journ. de Conch., lix., 1912, p. Ill, footnote. 



In the British Museum, I discovered, what I presume is the 

 type of this species, concealed under the label of " emberiza 



*Hedley, Rec. Austr. Mus., viii., 1912, p.131. 



