SOME NKW OK NOTKWOUTIIV SI1^:LLS — IIEDLKY. 135 



• neither adductor, pedal, nor pallial muscle scars are to be found. 

 Its authors refer it to the Pelecypoda but not to any division or 

 family. It is now suggested that no Pelecypod family would 

 contain it, because it is the internal shell of some Tectibranch 

 Gasteropod. Edenttellina should be compared with such a shell 

 as that of Bouvieria siellata, Kisso, figured by Vayssiere. *** 



If so, it would be associated with such puzzles as Thelidonuis, 

 an insect larva case described by Swainson as a Gasteropod; 

 Allportia, a I'lanariau described by I'enison Woods as a Nudi- 

 branch ; and Amalthea coxi, a barnacle described by Sowerby as 

 a Gasteropod. 



According to figure and description, the genus Ludovicia^ is 

 very similar to Edenttellina, and, if both were really bivalves, 

 might serve to contain the Australian species. 



MONTHOUZIERA CLATHRATA, Souvsrhie. 



Montrouziera clathrata, ^o\\\evh\e, J onvn. de Conch., xi., 1863, 

 p. 282, pi. xii., fig. 5. 



The genus J/ont7-o7iziera was founded on a single species 

 represented by a single specimen in the Bordeaux Museum. 

 Souverbie proposed that it should be classified next to Cumingia. 

 The species does not appear to have been again recognised, and 

 for nearly fifty years no further information has appeared in 

 literature. iSnbseqnent writers, like Fischer and Tryon merely 

 repeat the original matter. 



Fioni Mr. J. Brazier we lately obtained four specimens 

 dredged in three fathoms in Mozelle Bay near Noumea, New 

 Caledonia, the original locality. Except in being rather smaller, 

 viz. 10 mm., these agree with Souverbie's excellent figure and 

 ■description. 



Their examination induces me to suggest transference of the 

 genus from the Semelidse to the Psammobiidro. Monlroicziera 

 seems to me to be nearest to Asaphis but whereas Asaphis has 



8* Ann. des Sciences Naturelles., Ser. viii., Zool., viii., 1898, p. 306, 

 pi. XX., figs. 84, 84. 



9 Cossmann— Mem. Soc. Roy. Malac. Belg., xxii., 1887 (1888), p. 45, 

 .pi. ii., figs. 21-22. 



