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Hab. — Altona Bay, Portarlington, Portsea, Port Phillip; 

 Western Port ; Portland (Maplestone). 



Obs. — Hanley says S. corneus, Wood (non Lamarck), is a 

 synonym of this species, but the figure given represents a much 

 straighter shell than ours. Wood, Index Test. Sup., pi. 1, f. .2. 



Family Saxicavidae. 



Genus Saxicava, Bellevue, 1802. 



Saxicava australis, Lamarck. 



1819. Corbula australis, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., vol. 



vi., p. 153, No. 1. 

 1839. Corbula australis, Lamarck. Id. (3rd ed. Deshayes 



and Edwards), vol. ii., p. 547, No. 1. 

 1875. Saxicava australis, Reeve. Conch. Icon., vol. xx., 



pi. 2, f. 8. 

 1880. Saxicava australis, Hutton. Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 



134. 

 1884. Saxicava australis, Sowerby. Thes. Conch., vol. v., 



p. 132, pi. 471, f. 2. 

 1895. Saxicava australis, Clessin. Conch. Cab., vol. xi., 

 Gastrochaena, p. 40, No. 4, pi. 6, f. 1-4. 

 Hab. — A common species on our coast, showing great variation 

 in shape and size, occasionally attaining to upwards of an inch in 

 length even in Hobson's Bay. 



Genus Panopaea, Menard de la Groye, 1807. 



Panopaea australis, Sowerby. 



18241 Panopaea australis, Sowerby. Genera, pi. 40, 



f. 2. 

 1839. Panopaea australis, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert. (3rd 



ed. Deshayes and Edwards), vol. ii., p. 525, 



No. 3. 

 1842. Panopaea australis, Reeve. Conch. Syst., vol. ii., 



pi. 27, f. 2. 

 1842. Panopaea australis, Hanley. Cat. Rec. Biv. Shells, 



p. 18, pi, 9, f. 24 (in explanation of plate, p. 



2, referred to erroneously as No. 25). 



