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CUCURBITULA. 



C. cynibia,* Spengler, sp. 



Gastrochaena cybium, Spengler, Nov. Act. Sc. Soc. ii. 1783. 

 Fistulana lagenula, Lamarck, Anim. Sans Vert. v. p. 436. 1818. 



" (Desh. ed.) Anim. sans Vert. vi. p. 31, 



1835. 

 Bosc, Hist, des Coq. ii. p. 205, 1824. 

 Hanley, Desc. Cat. p. 3, t. 13, f. 59, 1842. 

 Catlow, Conch. Nomenc. p. 2, 1845. 

 Cucurbitula lagenula, Gould, Boston Proc. viii. p. 22, 1861. 

 Description. — " C. nana, latere affixa ; vagina lagenceformi, segmentis 

 trans versis articulata." — Lamarck. 



"T. elongata, arcuatfi, tenuis, lactea, postice quadrangularis, antice de- 

 clivis, et in rostrum protracta ; umbonibus ventricosis ad quadrantem antica- 

 lem positis ; margine dorsali postica recta ; margine ventrali incurvata ; angu- 

 lis posticis rotundatis ; fascie dorsali late ovato-cuneata, postice cito angustata; 

 fascie ventrali ovata, omnino hiante. Long. 12; lat. 6; alt. 3 millim." — 

 — Gould. 



Hab.— "Inhabits Hong Kong Harbor, 10 fathoms, Shelly Sand." W. 

 Stimpson. " Red Sea ;" label of specimen, from G. B. Sowerby, in Coll. A. N. S. 

 The tube of this species is a well known object in Conchological Collect- 

 tions ; it is strange that the valves were never described until this year. It 

 is widely distributed as a fossil species, and, had we included its synonymy, 

 as such, the list would extend to a page or more. Although the descriptions 

 by the older writers are sufficiently comprehensive for a perfect recognition of 

 the species by its tube alone, still it is very questionable, whether, consider- 

 ing that Dr. Gould was the first to describe the entire Mollusk, the credit 

 should not be given to him for the species. 



Bryopa. 

 1. B. a p e r t a ,* Sowerby, sp. 



Clavagella aperta, Sowerby, Genera, No. 13, f. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1820-24. 

 Crouch, Introd. Lamarck, t. 2, f. 7, a, b, 1827. 

 Deshayes, Encyc. Meth. Vers. ii. p. 240, 1830. 



" Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 2 edit. vi. p. 25. 

 1835. 

 Deshayes, Expl. Sci. de l'Algerie, Moll. p. 15, t. 1, f. 1. 

 Cuvier, Regne, Anim. (Audouin's Ed.) Moll. 1. 117, f. 2. 

 Reeve, Conch. Syst. i. p. 35, t. 18, 1841. 

 Hanley, Desc. Cat. p. 2, t. 9, f. 21, 1842. 

 Cailliaud, Guerin's Mag. Zool. 1842, t. 49, f. 1-7, t. 50, 



f. 1 and 2, t. 51, f. 1-4. 

 Cailliaud, Chenu's 111. Conch. Clavagella, p. 4, t. 1, 



f. 3-6. 

 Catlow, Conch. Nomenc. p. 2, 1845. 

 H. and A. Adams, Genera, iii. t. xci. f. 3, a, b, c, 



1856. 

 Gray, Figs, Moll. Anim. v. t. 340 f. 6, 7, 8, 1857. 

 Clavagella vivens ? Rang. Man. Moll. p. 342, 1829. 

 Clavagella sicula, Dellachiaje Anim. Sans Vert. t. 83, f. 19 and 23, 



t. 84, f. 18, 22, 23. 

 Bryopa aperta, Gray, Zool. Proc. p. 314, 1858. 



H. and A. Adams, Genera, ii. p. 649, 1858. 

 Description. — " B. excavatio ovata, rotunda, superascensa ; tubo cum limbis; 

 valvis subtriaugularibus, ovatis, maxinie oscilatis, concavis, rugosis, rnarga- 

 ritaceis intus ; umbone subrotundato." — Cailliaud. 

 Hab. — Mediterranean Sea. 



