BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 13. AFD. IV. N:0 5. 25 



prominent inargo. tlie onc going iuto tlie other, whicli is not the 

 case in the preceding species.) In the lectiire of 1772 it is noted: 

 »4. T. (jari, wanting.» 



»3. The little Ham, petazunculus, Argenv. t. 25, f. 0\ Gualt. t. 88 

 f. 2\ Tellina oblonga, antice angulatini rostrata; the fore-part drawn 

 ont, ]ike a snout.* The T. rostrata, 28, M. L. U., in which tlie 

 reference to RUiAIPHIUS, t. 45, f. L. stånds alone and the two here 

 qiioted were oniitted, although made ont already. The rest are: T. 

 foliacea, gargadia, scobinata, lingua feh's, remies. 



Solen. Eight spccies: fivc of the seven iu tlie M. L. U., 

 followed by: »Solen ovatiis, obtusissimus, cardine depresso 

 rotundato, Gualt. t. 91, f. />, List. Angl. t. 5 f. 36», which 

 became the ]\Iya triincata; :^Li8Ter, Augl. t. 5, f. 38», the future 

 Pholas crispata; »S. subarenaceo-marinus, It. Vestrog. p. 187», 

 Mya arenaria. 



CuNNUS. Eight exotic species of the future Venus, out 

 of the hrst twelvc in the M. L. U., beginning with C. Veneris, 

 the future V. Dione, followed by seven species without tri- 

 vial names, representing V. reticulata; V. dysera d. of the 

 M. L. U. and S. N. ed. 10, the V. verrucosa S. N. ed. 12, 

 »Argenv. t. 24, f. Q-»; V. iirabriata; V. dysera, > Argenv. 

 t. 24 f. A'», in the lecture of 1772 marked: »deficit»; V. pa- 

 phia?, »Argenv. t. 24 f. ^». White with vellow rays; pubes 

 lamellosa, that is with short, pointed raembranse, »the spinaj 

 are here lamellas»; A', meretrix; \. maculata: »ovalis, vulva 

 hians, nymphis nudis, conniventibus» from the description in 

 the M. L. U. 



Spondylus, the Chama of S. N. ed. 10, two species: Ch. 

 gigas; Ch. hippopus. 



Chama. Tlie name is here used as by Belon, 1555, but 

 is Pholas in the pencil-notcs. Two species, both afterwards 

 merged into Venus: 1. »literata, Kumph. t. XLIII, f. ^»; in 

 the Lecture of 1772 it is said: »varies infinitely, the Queen 

 lias a whole drawer full of its varieties». 2, the Venus de- 

 cussata of S. N. ed. 10; in 1772 marked: »wautino». 



Pinna. Two species: -^1, obovata, cuneiformis» seems to 

 comprehend three or four species of the M. L. U. »2. Is 

 probably the rarest of all bivalves, not in any author, and no- 

 where but in the Queens cabinet. It is an extraordinary shell 

 and its true shape very diHlcult to understand. There seem 

 to be two valves imited lengthwise on one side, not closing> 



