152 VENERID. 
Genus, VENERUPIS—Lamark. 
Siphons long, unequal, united as far as the middle; the respiratory 
siphon fringed at the orifice with a double series of cirri; foot small, 
conical, linguiform, and byssiferous. Shell irregular in shape, inequila- 
teral, gaping behind, three teeth in one valve and two or three in the 
other, pallial sinus deep and broad. 
V. reflexa, Gray, Dieff. N.Z., i1.. p. 250; Voy. Erebus and Terror, 
Moll., pl. 2, f- 3. Shell oblong, very irregular, rounded in front and 
truncated behind ; surface with thin sharp-edged, reflexed, concentric 
ridges, which are highest and most bent over and back at the hinder 
edge, and they generally have two or three lower concentric ridges 
between them ; hinge teeth 3.3; inside yellowish, hinder half blackish- 
purple, with a yellow edge (Gray.) 
Auckland to Dunedin, rare in the south. 
V.paupercula, Deshayes, P.Z.S., 1853, p. 5; Reeve, Conch. Lc, 
fi 28. Shell ovate, compressed, transverse, inequilateral, irregularly 
contorted, anterior obtuse, posterior perpendicularly truncated, dirty 
reddish-white, transversely irregularly rugose and_ striated; interior 
white, behind marked with violet ; pallial sinus broad, deep, apex very 
obtuse, horizontal (Desh.) 
New Zealand. (Cuming.) 
Probably the same as / drev7s, Quoy and Gaimard, from Tasmania. 
Sowerby says that this species is from Mazatlan. 
V. siliqua, Desh., P.Z.S., 1853, p. 5, £2. xvi, f 1; Reeve, Conch. 
Ic., f- 20. Sheil elongate, transverse, rather swollen, inequilateral, 
yellowish-white, anterior obtuse, posterior obtusely angled, truncated, 
transversely, unequally sulcato- striated, sulca and striw irregular, 
numerous, appressed, some sensibly larger behind, forming short 
regular, erect, lamine; umbones small, swollen; lunule scarcely 
distinct, prominent in the middle; pallial sinus narrow, elongated ; 
apex obtuse (Deshayes. ) 
New Zealand. (Cuming.) 
V. elegans, Deshayes, P.Z.S., 1853, p~. 5, pl. xviii, ff 23. Voy. 
Erebus and Terror, pl 2, 7. ©. Shell elongated, transverse, narrow, 
inequilateral, inflato-cylindrical, front attenuated short, behind broader, 
obtusely truncated, posterior side obtusely angled, longitudinally very 
finely and elegantly granular-striate, transversely multi-lamellate ; 
lamellee unequal, obtuse in front, crenulated, behind finer and broader, 
minutely crisped; lunule ovato-elongate, prominent in the middle, 
rimate ; area narrow, deep, canaliculated ; interior of valves white, 
the margin finely crenulated ; pallial line submarginal, the sinus short, 
angled, base broad (Deshayes.) 
New Zealand. (Cuming.) 
V. insignis, Deshayes, P.Z.S., 1853, p. 6, pl. xviii, f. 4; Reeve, 
Conch. Ic., f- 2. Shell ovato-transverse, sub-quadrate, very unequal, 
more or less inflated and irregular, yellow, margins reddish, longitudi- 
