150 VENERID/A 
A. australis, Gray, Dieff: N.Z, ii., p. 249 (1843 3) D. anus, Phil. 
Zeus, fur Mal. 18a, p. 132\; feeve, Conchalc,, pl. 2, 7, 104. Deshayes, 
Cat. Conch. in British Museum, part 1, p. 23. Orbicular, longer than 
high, with close elevated concentric laminz, decreasing in number 
towards each extremity, where they are higher and reflexed towards the 
umbones ; lunule cordate, deeply impressed, lamellate ; margin of tooth 
plate much sinuated ; anterior cardinal tooth striated ; pallial sinus hori- 
zontal, the angle pointing below the anterior adductor impression ; pale 
pinkish-brown ; interior white, getting violet round the margin. 
Height, 2°45 ; length, 2°6. 
Common in the North Island, not found South of Oamaru. 
As Venus australis (Q. & G.) has been identified with 4. varzegata, 
Gray (1838,) from the Philippine Islands, Dr. Gray’s name may be 
allowed to stand fer our shell, especially as Philippi’s name is_ highly 
objectionable. 
A. subrosea, Gray, Dieff. N.Z, ii, p. 249; Reeve, Conch. Lc., 
Y. Os, SZ, Voy. Lecbus. and Lerror, Moll., pl.) 3.7. 2. sOrbicular: 
rather longer than high, closely concentrically striated, the striz, 
decreasing in number and getting rather higher at each end; lunule 
cordate, deeply impressed, striate ; margin of tooth plate very slightly 
sinuated ; anterior cardinal tooth slightly striated or smooth ; pallial 
sinus ascending, the angle pointing at the anterior adductor impression ; 
pale pinkish-white, sometimes pinker at the umbones. 
Height, 19; length, 1°95. 
Common in the North Island ; Dunedin rare. Chatham ‘Islands. 
The Natives call this shell, and also Zapes intermedia, ‘‘ hakari.” 
A. lambata, Gould, U.S. Ex. Ep., xii, p. 422, f. 536. Orbicu- 
lar, rather compressed, very finely concentrically striated, the striz more 
distant and more elevated towards the posterior end, thin; umbones 
small, uncinate; lunule cordate, impressed, margined ; ligament sub- 
enclosed ; posterior tooth of the nght valve large. deeply bifid ; white. 
Height, 1; length, 1 
North Island only. 
A. carpenteri, Romer, Monogr., pl. 10, f- 2 (1862.) Cordato- 
orbicular, thin, sub-compressed, rounded anteriorly, perpendicularly sub- 
truncated behind, very inequilateral, with dense, regular, rounded, con- 
centric liree, towards the extremities, especially behind, generally con- 
fluent, the rest sub-lamellar, and terminating in small turned-over foliz ; 
radiating strive obsolete in the middle ; pale ferruginous ; umbones rather 
swollen, much re-curved ; anterior ventral margin rounded, strongly 
ascending, the posterior rather straight, directed upward; anterior 
dorsal margin very short, concave ; lunule cordate, impressed, clearly 
margined ; area lanceolate, excised, surrounded with an acute margin ; 
ligament deeply immersed ; pallial sinus large, lingulate; apex very 
broad, rounded. 
Length, T2095) Height, 1-23). thickness,)°57 inch. 
New Zealand (Baron v. Mueller.) 
I doubt the correctness of this locality. 
