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STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSC A. 



Part II. 



(Continued from p. 100.,) 



By C. Hedlby, F.L.S. 



(Plates xxv.-xxvi.) 



Chlamys blanda, Reeve. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. viii. 1853, Pecten, pi. xxxiv., ff. 162a, b. 



Though this species was reported by Tapparone-Canefri as 

 having been collected by the " Magenta" in Sydney Harbour,* it 

 has never been entered in local lists. I have lately seen a 

 specimen dredged by Mr. J. Brazier in eight fathoms off the. 

 Bottle and Glass Rocks near Sydney Heads. 



Chlamys bednalli, Tate. 



Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. ix. 1887, p. 73, pi. iv., f. 3. 



(Plate xxv., figs. 10, 11, 12, 13.) 



Specimens of this species from Sydney Harbour so differed in 

 sculpture from the type described by Prof. Tate that I considered 

 it a new species and prepared the following description and 

 figures. Since doing so I have, through the kindness of Mr. W. 

 T. Bednall, enjoyed the opportunity of studying the actual type 

 of Pecten bednalli. Our form has fewer and stronger ribs, not 

 so markedly disposed in twos and threes as the South Australian 

 shell, but so resembles it in other characters that I have thought 

 it best to publish the figures and description, to withdraw the 



* Viaggio Magenta, Zoologia, 1873, p. 253. 



