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A Revision of the Recent Lamellibranch 

 and palliobranch mollusga of south 

 Australia. 



By Professor Ealph Tate, F.G.S., E.L.S., &c. 



[Read October 5, 1886.] 



Peron, the naturalist to Baudin's Expedition (1802-3), 

 •carried the first conchological collection from South Australian 

 waters to Europe. Erom the narrative of the Expedition 

 written by Peron we learn that gatherings were made at the 

 archipelago of the St. Erancis Isles and at Nepean Bay, Kan- 

 garoo Island. The collection as a whole remains unpublished 

 up to the present day ; but Lamarck made some selections 

 from it, which were described in his " Animaux sans Vertebres," 

 vols. 5 to 7, 1818-1822 ; they consist of eighteen species of 

 lamellibranch s and two of gastropods, a list of which here 

 follows : — 



1. Crassatella sulcata. Kangaroo Island and Shark Bay, 



W.A. 



2. Crassatella cuneata. Kangaroo Island. 



[= Mesodesma (Anapa) cuneata.] 



3. Amphidesma glabrella. Kangaroo Island. 



4. Saxicava australis. Kangaroo Island. 



[= S. arctica, Lin.'] 



5. Venerupis distans. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



[= V. exotica.] 



6. Psammotea Candida. Kangaroo Island. 



[= Macoma Candida.] 



7. Tellina albinella. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



8. Tellina capsoides. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



9. Tellina deltoidalis. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



10. Donax epidermia. Kangaroo Island. 



[= D. deltoides.] 



11. Donax deltoides. Kangaroo Island. 



12. Donax cardioides. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



13. Yenus conularis. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



[= Chione aphrodina.] 



14. Venus aphrodina. Kangaroo Island. 



[= Chione aphrodina.] 



15. Cypricardia ro strata. Kangaroo Island. 



16. Isocardia semisulcata. St. Peter and St. Erancis Isles. 



