826 MESSRS. MELVILL AKD SXAISDEK UN [NoV. 13, 



DojSTAx (Serrula) dysoxi Desli. 

 I. Bombay [Ahercromhie). 



Viir. iiicarnatus (sp.) Sowb. 

 I. Bombay, with the type. 



DoNAX (Sereula) clathratus Desb. 



M.C. Ormara. Dredged at 2 fathoms, sand. 



DoNAx (Serrula) nitidus Desh. 



M.C. In one or two places, local, at 3-7 fathoms, sand. 

 I. Karachi. 5 fathoms, sand. 



DoNAX (Serrula) towj^sexdi Sowb. 



Douax townsendi Sovv-b. Proc. Mai. Soe. Lond. i. p. 161, pi. xii. 

 fig. 23 (1894). 



P.G. Without details of locality. 



I. Karachi. Found on the beach fi'om (> inches to a, foot 

 below the sui'face {F. W. T.). 



DoNAX (Mach.erodonax) scalpellum Gray. 



I. Karachi {Major Baker). 

 Also noticed at Aden {Shopland). 



Donax (Latona) aebreviatus Lamk. 



I. Bombay (Ahercrovibie). Bombay southwards to Goa and 

 Panjim {Lt.-Col. H. D. Olivier). Much eaten in India {E. H. 

 Aitken). 



DojSTAX (Oapsella) owexi Gray. 



I. Karachi, Dredged at 5 fathoms, sand. Also not un- 

 commonly on wet sand at extremely low tides. 



Fam. CardiliiD/E. 



*Cardilia semisulcata Lamk. 



P.G. Gulf of Oman. Lat. 26° 10' X., long. 52= 50' E. ; 33 

 fathoms, sand and rocks. Also lat. 24° 58' N., long. 56^ 54' E. ; 

 156 fathoms, shell-sand. Of very rare occurrence, and the few 

 specimens obtained are by no means perfect, being only single 

 valves, though quite cliaracteristic. Showing extension of range 

 westward. Port Blair, Andaman Isles, being its nearest habitat. 



* Mr. Edgar Smith (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. xviii. p. 260, October 1906) 

 notes one specimen alone dredged by R.I.M.S. ' Investigator ' ott' Port Blair at 

 100 fathoms, and gives as its known localities South Australia (Lamarck), Straits 

 of Malacca (JJesha^es), China (Sowei-bi/), Japan (LiscJike), Philippine Isles {Ctiminci 

 in Mus. Brit.). 



