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Pholas Siamensis, Si'engler, Nye Saml. af Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrivter, III, 1788 (1784), pp. 128—38 



with pi. (without Latin name). — Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, II, 

 1 H., 1792, p. 88, No. 3. 



"Den Siamske Havbugt, for Udløbet af Strømmen Queda, hvor den gaaer op 

 til Alaslav" (Spengler). Islands in the Gulf of Slam (Morlet). 



The Danish Expedition to Slam brought home no specimens of this species. 



Distribution: — Tranquebar, Gulf of Manaar, Mouths of the Indus (Karachee, 

 Scinde), Oman. — China Sea. 



MÖRCH ' has shown that Sciitus {^) abnormis, G. and H. Nevill,- from Penang 

 and Chandpur (Bay of Bengal) is nothing else but the accessory dorsal plate 

 ("Protoplaxe") of P. orientalis, Gm. 



Pholas (Barnea) Australasiae, Gray. 



Barnia Atistrahisiir, Gray, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist, 2 Ser., VIII, 1851, p. 38L 



Pholas — — SowEKBY, Thesaur. Conchyl., II, p. 488, No. n, pi. 107, fig. 73. 



Barnea — — Tryon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 207. 



Pholas .— — Reeve, Conchol. icon., XVIII, P7io/as, Sp. 11. 



— — — Morlet, Journ. de Conchyl., vol.37, 1889, p. 173, No. 89. 



— (Barnea) Australiasae, Sowerby, Clessin in Martini u. Chemnitz, Conchyl. Cabin., XI Bd., 4 Abth., 



p. 21, No. 18, pi. 6, fig. 2. 

 Barnea australasiae, Sowerby, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. Ki, p. 98. 



Between Bangkok and Kampot (Gulf of Siam), Morlet. 



The Danish Expedition to Siam brought home no specimens of this species. 



Distribution:— "Abundant in Australia" (Sowerby), Victoria (Pritchard 

 and Gatliff), Spencer's Gulf (South Australia, Angas), Tasmania (Tate and May). 



A nearly allied species from Mergui has been described by Philippi under 

 the name of Ph. birmanica.-^ On considering the distribution of P. Australasiae, a 

 doubt arises as to the correctness of Morlet's determination. 



Pholas (Barnea) sp. ? 



The shell of a small Barnea (long. 5 mm.) has been obtained at Koh Kahdat 

 which in form and sculpture somewhat resembles B. parva, Penn. On account of 

 its small size and bad state of preservation I cannot determine it with any certainty. 



Pholas (Martesia) striata (L.), Sow. 



Pholas striatus, Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, p. 669, No. 12. - ed. XII, 1767, p. 1111, No. 22. 



— striata, — Sowerby, Genera of rec. and foss. shells, No. XXIII, Pholas, fig. 2. — Thesaur. 



Conchyl., II, 1855, p. 494, No. 29, pi. 104, figs. 40-42; pi. 105, figs. 43-44. 



— — — Forbes & Hanley, British Mollusca, I, p. 120. 



' Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 24, 1876, p. 367. 



- Journal of the Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol.43, pt. II, 1874, p. 28, pi. 1, fig. 12. 



' Abbild, u. Beschreib, neuer od. wen. gekannt. Conchylien, III, p. 51, pl. 1, fig. 1. 



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