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Mr. A. H. Cooke on the 



Philippi seems to have been the first to institute any com- 

 parison between the Molluscan fauna of the Red Sea and 

 Mediterranean. On comparing his Sicilian and Italian col- 

 lections with those made in the Red Sea and deposited at 

 Berlin by MM. Hemprich and Ehrenberg, he came to the 

 conclusion * that the following species were common to both 



seas : — 



Patella cperulea, L, 



lusitanica, Gmel, 



tarentina, Lam. 



fragilis, Pit,. 



Fissurella groeca, L, 



costaria, Desh. 



rosea, Lam. 



Bulla striata, Bnig. 



truncata, Ad. 



Eulima polita, L. 

 Cheinnitzia elegantissima, Mont. 

 Truncatella truncatula, Mont. 

 Paludina tliermalis, L. 

 E-issoa glabrata, v. M. 

 Natica oUa, M. de S. 



millepuuctata, La7n. 



Nerita viridis, L. 

 lanthina bicolor, Mke. 

 Haliotis tuberculata, L. 

 Toruatella tornatilis, L. 

 Trochus crenulatus; Broc. 



striatus, L. 



Adansoni, Payr. 



Trochus varius, Gmel. 

 Oeritliium vulgatum, Brvg, 



mammillatiim, Risso. 



lima, Brug. 



perversum, Brug. 



Fasciolaria lignaria, L. 

 Fusus Cornells, L. 



syracusanus, L. 



rostratus, Oliv. 



Miirex trunculus, L. 

 Tritonium variegatum, Lam. 

 Eanella lanceolata, Mke. 

 Doliuni galea, L. 

 Buccinum vaiiabile, Ph. 



mutabile, L. 



■ gibbosulum, L. 



Mitra lutesceus, Lam. 

 Margiuella claudestina, Broc. 



miliacea, L. 



minuta, Pfr. 



Cypraea moneta, L. 

 erosa, L. 



Solen vagina, L. 



legiimen, L. 



Mactra stultorum, L. 

 — — inflata, B?-onn. 

 Corbula revoluta, Broc. 

 Diplodonta rotundata, Mont. 

 Lucina lactea, Pali. 



pecten, Lam. 



Mesodesma donacilla, Lam. 

 Donax trunculus, L. 

 Venus verrucosa, L. 



decussata, L. 



Cytberea exoleta, L. 



lincta. Lam. 



Cardita calyculata, Brug, 



It would be needless to demonstrate the utter incorrectness 

 of this list, the proportions of which no succeeding investiga- 

 tions have in the slightest degree tended to confirm. It is 

 very obvious that the collection of MM. Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg, which numbered 375 species in all, had in some 



* ' Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliae,' pp. 248, 249 (Berlin, 1836). 



Ai'ca Nose, L. 



tetragona, Poli. 



barbata, L. 



■ diluvii, Latn. 



Pectunculus violacescens, Lam. 

 Nucula margaritacea, Lam. 

 Cbama gryphoides, L. 

 Modiola discrepans, La7n. 



Petagnpe, Scac. 



lithophaga, L. 



Pinna squamosa, L. 



nobilis, L. 



Spondylus aculeatus, Chemn. 

 Ostrea cristata, Born. 



