214 PANDORID^. 



L, NORVEGicA, Chemnitz. 



Plate VIII. fig. 6 to 9, and (animal) Plate H. fig. 3. 



Mya Norveffica, Chem^:. Concb. Cab. vol. x. (1788), p. 345, pi. 170, f. 1647, 

 1648.— TuRT. Conch. Diction, p. 100, f. 100.— Flem. Brit. 

 Anim. p. 466. — Wood, General Conch, p. 98, pi. 18, f. 4, 5. 

 — DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 48. — Index Testaceol. pi. 

 2, Mya, f. 13. 

 Mi/u nitida. Fabric. Skrivt. Natur. Selskab. (1798), vol. iv. part "2, pi. 10, 



f. 10. 

 Amphidesma Corbuloides, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ed. 2, vol. vi. p. 129. 

 Mya striata, Mont. Linn. Trans, vol. xi. p. 188, pi. 1, f. 13. — Tuht. Conch. 



Diction, p. 1 05. 

 Mya pellucida. Brown, Mem. Warn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 505, pi. 24, f. I. 

 Lyonsia striata, Turt. Dithyra Brit. p. 35, pi. 3, f. G, 7. 

 Anatina Norvegica, Sowerb. Genera Shells, Anatina, f. 2. — Reeve, Conch. 



System, pi. 34, f. 2. 

 Osteodesma Corbuloides, Desh. in Lam. Anim. s. Vert. vol. vi, p. 85. — Desh. 

 Elem. Conch, pi. 8, f. 12, 13, 14.— IIanl. Recent 

 Shells, p. 24. 

 Lyonsia Norvegica, Sowerb. Conch. Manual, ed. 2, f. 491, 492. — Macgill. 



Moll. Abcrd. p. 300. 

 Myatella Moniagui, Brown, lUust. Conch. G. B. p. Ill, pi. 40, f. 26, 27. 

 Magdala striata. Brown, lllust. Conch. G. B. p. Ill, pi. 44, f. 1, 2, 10. 

 Ost^odesme Corbulo'ide, Chenu, Traite Elem. p. 51, f. 164, 165, 166. 

 VAR. — Tellina coruscans, Scacch. Osserv. Zool. p. 14. 



I'andorina „ Scacch. Catalog, p. 6. — Ann. N. H. vol. iv. p. 294, 



pi. 14, f. 1 to 4. 

 Osteodesma coruscans, Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 15, pi. 14, f. 1. 

 Anatina truiicata. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (Desh. ed.) vol. vi. p. 77 (in part). — Desh. 



(not Deles, nor Hani.) Encycl. Meth. vol. ii. p. 40. 

 Lyonsia elongata, Gray, in British Museum. — Hanl. Recent Shells, p. 25, 

 suppl. pi. 13, f. 27. 

 „ coruscans, Desh. Exped. Scient. Algerie, Moll. pi. 25. A. 



From the ossicle of Montagu's shell having been repre- 

 sented as fixed, Captain Brown has instituted a genus 

 based upon the figured type for its sole reception. Having 

 examined Mr. Lyons's own specimen, and conferred with 

 him upon the subject, we are enabled positively to assert 

 its identity with the present species. The general contour 

 is oblong, the texture very thin, brittle, and somewhat 

 trauslucent, externally dull whitish, and internally of a 



