BY C. HEDLEY. 275 



Soc, 1906, p. 826. Xot Donax nitidus Lamarck, Ann. du Mus. vii., 

 1806, p. 231 and xii., 1811, PL 41, fig. 6. 



The name proposed by Reeve and Deshayes for a recent Aus- 

 tralian Donax was already given by Lamarck to a Parisian fossil. 

 A new epithet, D. veruinus, is therefore here proposed. The range 

 of the species has been recently extended to the Persian Gulf by 

 Melvill and Standen. 



Solen vagina Linne. 



Solen vagina Linne, Syst. Nat. x., 1758, p. 672 ; Id,, Hanley, Ips. 

 Linn. Conch., 1855, p. 29. 



Solen truncatus Mawe, Linn. Syst. Conchol., 1823, p. 19, PI. v., 

 fig. 2. 



Solen brevis Gray, MSS., in Hanley, Recent Shells, 1842, p. 12, 

 PI. xiii., fig. 42. 



Solen fonesii Dunker, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1861, p.419 ; Id., Bloomer, 

 Proc. Malac. Soc, vii., 1906, p. 18. 



Solen jonesii Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., iii., 1867, suppl. p. 28; 

 Id., Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xix., 1874, PL iii., fig. 11. 



On the tablet of the t} T pe of S. fonesii in the British Museum, is 

 a note, "Compare with brevis Gray." On making the comparison, 

 the two appeared, to me, to be the same. Hanley has already 

 shown that the Linnean species is identical with S. brevis. This 

 seems to be the common North Queensland species. 



Solen aspersus Dunker. 

 Solen aspersus Dunker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 420; Id., 

 Sowerby, Conch. Icon, xix., 1874, PL vii., fig. 33. 



A specimen evidently type, but not so marked, in the British 

 Museum, is labelled " aspersus Dkr., Sydney, Australia, M.C., 

 P.Z.S., 1861, p. 420." This is identical with S. vaginoides Lamk., 

 but the locality is erroneous. 



Cryptomya elliptic* A. Adams. 

 (Plate xvii., figs. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.) 

 Sphaenia elliptica A. Adams, Proc Zool. Soc, 1850, (1851), p. 

 88; Id., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) vii., 1851, p. 421; Id., Smith, op. 

 cit. (6) xii., 1893, p. 278. 



