128 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
Famity ARCJD. 
Barbatia fusca Brug.—Four perfect specimens and _ several 
valves. 
Two or three other species of Avcide are in the collec- 
tion, but all single valves, and somewhat worn. One comes near 
A. japonica Reeve. 
Pectunculus «f novo-caledoniensis Angas.—One large 
valve and three juvenile examples which seem to be this 
species. 
Famity CARD/ITID. 
Mytilicardia muricata Sow.—Many single valves. 
M. variegata Brug.—Several valves. 
Famity ERYCINID. 
Kellia fidelium sp. nov. (Pl. IIL, fig. 30). 
K. testa ovato-rotunda, tenut, nitida, lactea, latere postico 
rotundato, antico compressiusculo, vix subguadrato. 
Long., 17 mill. Lat., 13°5 mill. 
Hfab., Lifu. 
A very beautiful milk-white shining species, not unlike 
some of the Scnéil/e in form, but more agreeing with the genus 
Kellia, to which we have relegated it. The hinge appears that 
of anormal Ke//ia. Rare. 
FamMILy 7RIDACNIDE. 
Tridacna crocea Lamarck.—Two perfect specimens, one of 
them a juvenile only 20 mills. wide. 
FaMILY CARDIIDEZ. 
Levicardium australe Sowerby.—Several. 
Hemicardium cardissa Linné.—One small specimen. 
H. hemicardium Linné.—Several valves. 
H. (Fragum) unedo Linné.—Valves only. 
FaMILy CHAMID. 
Chama foliacea Quoy.—Worn valves only, but showing the 
distinctive red staining within. 
FaMILy CYPRINIDZ. 
Libitina angulata Lam.—Several very pretty specimens. 
J.C., viii., Oct. 1895. 
