PELECYPODA. 25 
rotundatis et obsolete angulatis instructa, fulvescente alba, 
maculis numeresis parvis strigisque fuscis et carneo pur- 
purascentibus radiata et aspersa ; umbones prominentes, com- 
planati, ante medium locati ; latus anticum subtruncatum, 
posticum longius ; lunula parviuscula, area ligamenti late 
excavata. 
Antero-post 25, umbono-marg, 20 millim. 
Hab. Durban. 
This shell has somewhat the appearance of the West- 
Indian V. paphia, but the ridges are not produced posteriorly 
into short Jamin as in that species. 
VENERUPIS LajonKari, Payvandeat, Sowerby, Thes. 
Conch. (Tapes), vol. ii., p. 695., pl. 150,f. r20.—Durban. The 
usual habitat of this species is the Mediterranean, but it 
does not appear to be common anywhere. 
CyYPRICARDIA ANGULATA, Lamarck, Reeve, Coach. Icon., 
fig. 2. —Natal. 
CaRDIUM TENUICOSTATUM, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. 
Cardium, pl. 10, fig. 50.—Natal. Common in several localities 
on the Australian coast. 
CaRDIUM RUGOsSUM, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. 
Cardium, pl. 14, fig. 68.—Natal. Widely distributed in the 
Indian Ocean, Australia, and South Sea. 
.CARDIUM RUBICUNDUM, Reeve, Conch. Icon.  Cardium, 
pl. 9, fig. 44.—Natal. 
CARDIUM PAPYRACEUM, Chemmitz, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 
pl. 2, fig. 9 —Natal. China Sea, Philippines, &c. 
Carpium Turton, Sowerby, pl. vii., fig. 4, Journal of 
Conchology, vol. 7, p. 14.—Port Elizabeth. 
Carpium Burnopt, Sowerby, n. sp., pl. viii., f. 25. Testa 
subcircularis inflata, crassiuscula, straminea, carneo-fusco 
tincta radiatim costata; costis 29 angustis, sub-remotis 
anticis fornicato squamatis, medianis serratis, posticis acu- 
leatis. 
Diam -antero-post 44, umbono-marg, 43 millim. 
Hab. Durban. 
This species (of which I have only seen odd valves) is 
intermediate in character between C lima, Gmelin, and C. 
aculeatum, Linn. 
Carpium apamsl, Reeve, Moll. Voy. Samarang, pl. 22, fig. 2 
