Catalogue of Marine SJtells of Victoria. 99 



1872. Pholas austral asiae, Reeve. Conch. Icon., vol. 



xviii., pi. 3, f. 1 1. 

 1893. Pholas (Barnea) australasiae, Clessin. Conch. Cab., 

 vol. xi., Pholas, p. 21, pi. 6, f. 2. 

 Hab.— Port Phillip; Western Port ; Ander.son's Inlet (W. H, 

 Ferguson) ; Portland (Maplestone). 



Obs. — This species at present appears to be very much rarer in 

 Hobson's Bay and along the Bay between St. Kilda and Sand- 

 ringham than it was a few years back. 



Barnea obturamentum, Hedley. 



1893. Pholas obturamentum, Hedley. Records Austr. 

 Mus., vol. ii.. No. 4. pp, 55-57, pi. 14, f. 1, 2, 3. 



Hab. — Hobson's Bay and Port Phillip generally ; Western 

 Port; Portland (Maplestone); Loutit Bay, Lakes Entrance 

 (Nat. Mus.). 



Obs. — Mr. Hedley in the above paper was the first to clear up 

 the difficulties surrounding this species, in that up to the time of 

 his dealing with the matter it had been usually referred to as 

 Barnea similis. Gray. 



Family Solenidae. 



Genus Solen, Linnaeus, 1757. 



Solen vagixoides, Lamarck. 



1<S18. Solen vaginoides, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., vol. 



v., p. 451, No. 3. 

 1819. Solen vaginoides, Lamarck, Id., vol. vi., p. 54, 



No. 3. 

 1839. Solen vaginoides, Lamarck. Id. (3rd ed. Deshayes 



and Edwards), vol. ii., p. 521, No. 3. 



1841. Solen vaginoides, Delessert. Recueil de Coq., No. 



3, pi. 2, f. 3a, b. 



1842. Solen vaginoides, Hanley. Cat. Rec. Biv. Shells, 



P- 11- 

 1874. Solen vaginoides. Reeve. Conch. Icon., vol. xix. 



pi. 5, f. 23. 

 1888. Solen vaginoides, Clessin. Conch. Cab., vol. xi., 



Solen, p. 16, No. 17, pi. 7, f. 2. 



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