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  16. 
  Tapes 
  malabarica. 
  

  

  Chemnitz; 
  Romer, 
  Monog. 
  Tapes, 
  Novitat. 
  Conch, 
  p. 
  34, 
  pi. 
  10. 
  

   figs. 
  3-3 
  d. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  MoUe, 
  14 
  fms. 
  {Coppinger); 
  Malabar, 
  Molucca 
  and 
  

   Philippine 
  Islands 
  (Eomer). 
  

  

  17. 
  Tapes 
  variegata. 
  

   Soioerhj 
  ; 
  Romer, 
  I. 
  c. 
  suprh, 
  p. 
  78, 
  pi. 
  27. 
  figs. 
  2-2 
  e. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Curtis, 
  7 
  fms. 
  ( 
  Coppinger) 
  ; 
  Philippine 
  Islands 
  and 
  

   Japan 
  {Romer). 
  

  

  18. 
  Tapes 
  araneosa. 
  

  

  Venus 
  araneosa, 
  Philippi, 
  Ahbild. 
  vol. 
  iii. 
  p. 
  25, 
  pi. 
  7. 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

  Tapes 
  araneosa, 
  Romeros 
  Monoyr., 
  Novitat, 
  Conch, 
  p, 
  53, 
  pi. 
  19. 
  fig. 
  1. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Darwin, 
  N.W. 
  Australia, 
  8-12 
  fms. 
  

  

  The 
  locality 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  I 
  believe 
  has 
  not 
  hitherto 
  been 
  re- 
  

   corded. 
  In 
  the 
  single 
  specimen 
  before 
  me 
  the 
  umboncs 
  are 
  all 
  but 
  

   terminal, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  anterior 
  end 
  is 
  even 
  more 
  perpendicular 
  than 
  

   as 
  represented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Eomer's 
  figures. 
  T. 
  deshayesii 
  is 
  not 
  ujilike 
  

   this 
  species 
  as 
  regards 
  its 
  general 
  form 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  anterior 
  end 
  is 
  

   hardly 
  so 
  short, 
  and 
  the 
  concentric 
  sculpture 
  decidedly 
  coarser. 
  

  

  19. 
  Tapes 
  (Textrix) 
  textrix. 
  

  

  Venus 
  textrix, 
  Chemnitz. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Jackson 
  (Coppinger). 
  

  

  Two 
  young 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  well-known 
  species 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  buff 
  colour, 
  

   mottled 
  with 
  bluish 
  white 
  at 
  the 
  umbones, 
  and 
  spotted 
  with 
  red- 
  

   brown 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  margins. 
  

  

  20. 
  Venerupis 
  crenata. 
  

  

  Lamarch; 
  Delessert, 
  Recueil, 
  pi. 
  o. 
  fig. 
  2; 
  Pfeifer, 
  Con.- 
  Cab. 
  pi. 
  31. 
  

   figs. 
  22, 
  23 
  ; 
  Sowerhj, 
  Conch, 
  Icon. 
  tig. 
  3 
  ; 
  Reeve, 
  Conch, 
  Icon, 
  fig. 
  5 
  

   {as 
  Cypricardia 
  serrata). 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Jackson 
  {Coppinger). 
  

  

  21. 
  Trapezium 
  vellicatum, 
  var. 
  

  

  Cypricardia 
  vellicata, 
  Reeve, 
  Conch. 
  Icon. 
  pi. 
  2. 
  fig. 
  7. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Port 
  Darwin, 
  8-12 
  fms., 
  bottom 
  mud 
  and 
  sand 
  {Coppinger): 
  

   Philippine 
  Islands 
  {Ouming). 
  

  

  The 
  A^orth-Australian 
  variety 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  peculiar 
  on 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  the 
  coloured 
  rays 
  which 
  distinguish 
  the 
  typical 
  

   form. 
  

  

  