112 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Genus Anapella, Dall, 1895. 



Anapella cuneata, Lamarck. 



1819. Crassatella cuneata, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., 



ed. Desh., vol. vi., p. 133. 

 1839. Crassatella cuneata, Lamarck. Id. (3rd ed., Des- 

 hayes and Edwards), vol. ii., p. 539, No. 8. 



1842. Mesodesma cuneata, Hanley. Cat. Rec. Biv. 



Shells, p. 38. 



1843. Mesodesma triquetra, Hanley. P.Z.S. Lond., p. 



101. 

 1854. Mesodesma cuneata, Reeve. Conch. Icon., vol. 



viii., pi. 2, f. 9. 

 1854. Mesodesma triquetra, Reeve. Id., pi. 4, f. 28. 



Mesodesma sraithii, Gray. 

 1856. Mesodesma triquetrum, Hanley. Cat. Rec. Biv. 



Shells, p. 341, pi. 12, f. 20. 



1875. Mesodesma (Anapa) smithii. Woodward. Man. 



Moll., p. 485, pi. 21, f. 17. 



1876. Anapa tasmanica, T. Woods. P.R.S. Tas., p. 160. 

 1878. Anapa tasmanica, T. Woods. Id., p. 49. 



1887. Mesodesma (Anapa) smithi, Fischer. Man. d. 



Couch., p. 1113, pi. 21, f. 17. 

 1897. Anapella cuneata, Tate. T.R.S. S.A. vol. x.xi., pt. 



1, p. 46. 

 1901. Anapella cuneata, Tate and May. P.L.S. N.S.W., 

 vol. xxvi., pt. 3, p. 424. 

 Hab. — Coast generally, particularly estuarine localities. Port 

 Fairy to Port Albert. 



Obs. — Hanley and other authors give Mesodesma subtriangu- 

 lata, Gray, as a synonym of this species, but the figure given of 

 Mactra subtriangulata, by Wood, Index Testaceologicus, Supple- 

 ment, pi. 1, f. 10, and referred to by Hanley as Gray's species, is 

 not our shell. Tate again quotes Crassatella cycladea, Lamarck, 

 as another synonym Vjased on his examination of the Lamarck ian 

 type, and he also suggests that Mulinia pinguis, Crosse and 

 Fischer, is only the triquetra form of the above species. 



