95 



Murray. Rivers Onkaparinga, Torrens, and Para. Also 

 Muddy Creek, Hamilton, Victoria (B.T.). 



81. Corbicula Deshayesi, E. A. Smith, Proc. Lin. Soc, xvi., 

 t. 7, £. 28-29, p. 303. 



Dead shells only on the north-east shore of Lake Alexandrina. 

 Types from Victoria R. and Port Essington, North Australia. 



82. Corbicula desolata, Tate, anted, p. 67, t. 4, f . 11. 

 Cooper's Creek at Innamincka {James ITcLeod!). 



Family Cardiidj;. 



83. Cardium pulchellum, Gray in Dieffenback's jST. 

 Zealand, ii., p. 252 ; id. Reeve, Mon., t. 8, f. 42. 



Dredged in life from 6 fms. off the Orontes bank in St. Vin- 

 cent Gulf ; Kangaroo Island (#. Aust. Mus.l). Also Victoria, 

 Tasmania, New South "Wales, and New Zealand. 



Finely radially costated, posterior slope with sharp 

 tubercles, whitish with orange-coloured rays. Length, seven- 

 sixteenths of an inch. 



84. Cardium tenuicostatum, Lamarck, An. s. Vert., vi., p. 5 

 (1819); Reeve's Mon., f. 50. 



From the Head of the Great Bight to Port Lincoln ; Spencer 

 and St. Vincent Gulfs, throughout the temperate waters of 

 Australia ; also at the Philippines ; New Holland and Timor 

 (Lamarck). 



Thiu, ventricose, slightly oblique, rayed with numerous fine 

 ribs, surmounted by epidermal frills ; flesh-coloured waves on 

 a white or yellowish ground, umbones purple. Length, two 

 inches. 



85. Cardium cygnorum, Deshayes, P. Z. S., 1854, p. 331. 

 Same South Australian localities as the last, though muck 



less common ; also Swan River (type) and Tasmania. 



Ovate, depressed, slightly oblique ; about 40 narrow elevated 

 radial costa?, creuulate on the sides ; white, yellow at the 

 margins, spotted with reddish-brown. Length, one and a-half 

 inches ; height, one and three-quarter inches. 



86. Cardium foveolatum, Sowerby, Conch. Illustrations, 

 f. Go. 



Dead shells at Point Riley, Wallaroo Bay; also "West Aus- 

 tralia (type). 



Similar to the last; very solid, not oblique, narrower, and 

 with 24 costae. 



Family Ckamidje. 



37. Chama. spinosa, Broderip, Trans. Zool. Soc, i., t. 38, 

 f . 8, 9 ; C. f rag urn [Reeve] , Angas. 



