522 REVISION OP THE RECENT LAMELLIBRANCIIIATA OF N. Z., 



Habitat. — Throughout New Zealand, and at the Auckland 

 Islands. 



Venus crebra. Hutton, Cat. Marine Moll, of New Zealand, p. 70 



(1873). 



Habitat. — North Island of New Zealand. 



Perhaps a variety of the last but more swollen, smoother, and 

 the concentric striaj crenulated at the anterior end by radiating 

 lines. 



Vexus yatei. Gray in Yate's New Zealand (1835). V. calcarea, 

 Gould, Pro. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist. III., p. 277 (1850). V. 

 lucasii, Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud. Zool. V., 

 p. 151, pi. 26, fig. 1 (1854). 



Habitat. — Throughout New Zealand, but rare in the South. 

 Prof. v. Martens says that this species is allied to V. exalbida, 

 Chemn. from the Straits of Magellan, and to V. plicata, Gmelin. 



Venus stuchburyi. Gray in Woods Index Test. Supp. (1828) ; 

 and in Dieffenbach's New Zealand, II., p. 250 ; Voy. Erebus 

 and Terror, Moll. pi. 3, fig. 4 ; Peeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 59. 

 V. Zealandica, Quoyand Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. III., 

 p. 522, pi. 84, fig. 5-6 (1835) [not good.] V. Diefenbachii, 

 Gray in Dieff., New Zealand, II., p. 250 (1843) (Young). 



Habitat. — Throughout New Zealand, and at the Chatham and 

 Auckland Islands. 



Found also in Tasmania (Tenison- Woods), and according to Mr. 

 S. P. Woodward at Kerguelen's Land. 



Venus costata. Qtioy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. III., 

 p. 521, pi. 84, fig. 1-2 (1835). V. crassicosta, Hanley in 

 Recent Shells, p. 118, pi. 16. fig. 39 (1844). V. crassicostata, 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., fig. 42. 



llub'ttat. — Throughout New Zealand. 



