CHAMA., 89 
Chama odlonga. 
Although unaccompanied by any illustrative synonym, this 
species, thanks to the full description of it in the ‘Museum UI- 
rice,’ has been generally recognised in the Cypricardia Guinaica 
(Chemn. Conch. Cab. vol. vii. pl. 50, f. 504, 505), with which, 
indeed, it fairly agrees. The colouring, size and very delicate 
decussation there specified seem more in consonance with the 
characters of that shell than with those of the Cypricardia 
selected as its representative in the ‘ Conchologia Iconica.’ 
Chama Lasarus. 
M. Deshayes has justly remarked that the synonymy attached 
to this species leaves no doubt upon one’s mind that it was not 
the Lazarus of Lamarck’s ‘ Animaux,’ but his Damecornis. 
This conclusion is confirmed by the presence of that rare 
species (Born, Test. Ces. Vind. pl. 5, f. 12) in the box thus 
inscribed in the Linnean cabinet. Although Argenville’s figure 
F, as well as the 5 of Seba’s plate referred to, remind one of 
the intended species, they are meant for Spondyli, and, together 
with the reference to Brown, must be expunged from any future 
synonymy. 
Chama gryphoties. 
The name gryphoides is borrowed from Gualtier, who has 
used it generally for that group to which the name Chama is 
now restricted. The discordant array of almost irrecognisable 
figures (for the most part of interiors and single valves) referred 
to by Linneus evinces that he, also, would have included under 
this name all the regularly formed short-scaled veritable Chame. 
Among the more recognisable delineations, the C. macerophylla 
of Chemnitz (C. Lazarus of Lamarck) and the Jataron of Adan- 
son (C. Senegalensis? of Reeve) may be particularised; the 
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