67 163 



Farn. Carditidae. 



Cardita variegata, Brug. 



CiirtUlit inirieijala, HiiuGUiÈUE, Encyclopédie nictliodiciuc. Hist. nat. d. vers, I, 17'.)2, p. 407, No. (i, pi. 



233, fig. G [C. cahjculata, Lain.). 



— — — Reeve, Concliol. icon., I, 1843, Cardila, Sp. 3. 



— — — Krauss, Siidafrilian. Mollusken, 1848, p. 13. 



Mijlilicardia — — i)i-; Rochebbune, Faune malacol. de la Cochincliinc ct du Cambodge 



(Bull. Soc. Philomatliique de Paris 1881, p. 12, No. 32. 



Cardita — — Cliîssin in Mabtini u. Cukmnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X Bd., 1 Abtli., 1888, 



p. 23, No. 43, pi. 3, figs. 8-9, and pi. 11, figs. 5— 6. 



— — — P. Fischer, Catalogue d. Moll, de I'lndo Chine, p. 228. 



— cahjculata, Lamarck i non Linné), Hist. nat. d. anim. s. vert., 2 éd., VI, 1835, p. 431, No. 15. 



— — — SowERBY, Genera of reo. and fossil shells. Cardita, figs. 1 — 2. 



— snbaspera, — Hist. nat. d. anim. s. vert., VI, 1819, p. 25, No. 16. — éd. 2, VI, p. 432, No. 16. 



— — — Delessebt, Recueil de coquilles deer. p. Lamarck, 1841, pi. 11, fig. 9. 



"Siam" (P. Fischer, loc. cit.). 



Distribution: — Singapore, Mergui Isis., Nicobars, Ceylon, Gulf of Manaar, 

 Maldive Isis., Ratnagiri, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Suez, Sej'chellcs, 

 Amirantes, Zanzil)ar, Natal, Querimba Isis., Mascarenes. — Poulo Condor, China, 

 Yokohama, Philippines, Sulu Isis., Java, Moluccas, Mast Head Reef (Queensland), 

 Port Essington, Samoa Isls., Viti Isis., Lifu. 



The Danish Expedition collected no specimens of this species from the Gulf 

 of Siam, but it has been taken at Singapore in shallow water (by Sv. Gad). A. H. 

 Cooke' writes: "I cannot separate radiila, Reeve, from this species." 



Fam. Crassatellidae. 



Crassatella radiata, Sow. 



Crasstdella radiata, (1. B. Sowerby, Catalogue of the shells in the collect, of the Earl of Tankerville, 



1825, Appendix, p. II, pi. 1, fig 2. 



— — — Reeve, Conchol. icon., I, Crassatella, Sp. 12. 



— — — Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., X Bd., 1 Abth., p. 14, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



— — — Crosse & Fischer, Journ. de Conchyl., vol. 40. 1892, p. 76. 



Many specimens taken from Koh Lan to Koh Kut, 2—30 fathoms, clay, nuid, 

 shells, sand. Very common. 



Long. 2—27 mm. (sp. maj. long. 27 mm., alt. 20 mm., crass. 10 mm.). 



Gulf of Siam, west coast of Cambodge (Pavie). 



Distribution: — Singapore (Danish Exp. to Siam, 2 — 3 fathoms), Mergui 

 Archip., Nicobars, Andamans, Gulf of Manaar, otT Mangalore (Malabar-Coast), Gulf 

 of Aden, Red Sea. 



' Annals and Magaz. of Nat. Hist., 1886, p. 101. 



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