THE MOLLUSCA—HEDLEY. 499 
though actually mentioning the page of his predecessor’s work, 
states that the habitat of the species is unknown. Such evidence 
of carelessness supports me in concluding that Sowerby again 
described this species as 7’, obliquistriata,* from ‘ Kingsmill 
Island,” by which the Kingsmill or Gilbert Group are doubtless 
intended, It is in this Museum from Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 
TELLINA RHOMBOIDES, Quoy & Gaimard. 
Smith, Chall. Rep., Zool., xiii., 1885, p. i038. 
Abundant in the lagoon. 
Reported by Smith, under various names, from Guam in the 
Ladrones ; Cape York, Queensland ; and Levuka, Fiji; and by 
Melvill and Standen from Lifu. It is in this Museum from 
Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 
TELLINA ROBUSTA, Hanley. 
Sowerby, Joc. cit., pl. xvi., sp. 77. 
. The yellow variety occurred in profusion in the lagoon. 
Hanley reports this from Anaa, Paumotus; Schmeltz from 
Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Upolu. I have taken it at Hyenghien, 
New Caledonia. ‘There are examples in the Museum from the 
Isle of Pines. 
TELLINA OPALINA, Sowerby. 
(Fig. 52). 
Sowerby, Joc. cit., pl. xliv., sp. 258. 
The paucity of information given by Sowerby permits no 
accurate determination, but suggests this name for a species of 
which I took a dozen odd valves on the beach of the lagoon. The 
species in question is in length 5:5, and in height 3-7 mm. ; very 
glessy, radiately marked with translucent and opaque lines or 
dashes, the concentric sculpture almost effaced. 
The original description gave no locality. Melvill and Standen 
supply; Madras and the Moluccas. 
7 * Sowerby —Conch. Icon., xvii., 1866, pl. xliv., sp. 256. 
+ Melvill and Standen—Journ. Conch., ix., 1898, p. 85. 
