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figures. The cardinal dentition appears to resemble that of Microstagon and 

 there is a feeble anterior lateral on each valve. On the whole it seems probably 

 a member of this family. 



Genus ASTARTE Sowerby. 

 Astarte Sby., Min. Conch., ii., p. 85, tab. 137, 1816 ; Gen. Shells, pt. iv., 1822; Lajonkaire, 



Mem. Soc. d'hist. nat. Paris, i., p. 29. 1823; E. A. Smith, Journ. Conch., iii., pp. 



196-232, 1881. 

 Tridonta Schumacher, Essai, p. 146, 1817. Type Venus borealis Chemnitz ; Moller, Isis, . 



p. 13s, 1832. 

 Crassina Lamarck, An. s. Vert., v., p. 554, 1818; Leach, Ross's Voyage, App., ii., p. Ixii., 



1819, sole example C. scotica; Schweigger, Naturg., p. 710, 1820; Blainville, Man. 



Mai., p. SS7, 1825; Hanley, III. Cat., i., p. 87, 1844; Leach, Syn. Moll. Great Brit., 



p. 301, 1852; Chenu, Man. Conch., ii., p. 130. 1862. 

 Triodonta Agassiz, Nomenclator, Index, p. 1087, 1847; not of Bory St. Vincent, 1824. 

 Nicania Leach, Ross's Voyage, App., ii., p. Ixii., 1819; Journ. de Physique, Ixxxviii., p. 



465, 1819; types N. Banksii and N. striata Leach, op. cit.; Thompson's Ann. Phil., 



xiv., p. 204, 1819; Gray, Parry's Voy., App., p. ccxlii., 1824; Zoological Journ., i., 



p. 119, 1824; Morch, Greenland Moll, in Adm. Man., p. 132, 1875; Sars, Moll. Reg. 



Arct. Norveg., p. 51, 1878; Fischer, Man. de Conchyl., p. 1016, 1887. 

 Tridenta Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xix., Mon. Astarte, 1874; err. typ. pro Tridonta. 

 Tridonta Morch, Adm. Man., p. 132 (A. borealis Schum.), 1875; Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. 



Norv., p. 50, 1878; Fischer, Man. de Conchyl., p. 1016, 1887. 

 Gonilia Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. India, p. 278, 1871, type Lucina bipartita Philippi; Tryon, 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1872, p. 248; Smith, Journ. Conch., iii., p. 232, i88i ; 



Fischer, Man. de Conchyl, p. 1016, 1887. 

 Crassinella Bayle, Explic. de la carte Geol. de France, 1879, type Astarte obliqua Deshayes, 



Bajocien; not of Guppy, Geol. Mag., ii., vol. ii., p. 451, 1874. 

 Neocrassina Fischer, Man. de Conchyl., p. 1016, 1887; new name for Crassinella Bayle 



non Guppy. 

 Grotriania Speyer, Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Geol. Ges., xii., p. 496, i860. Type G. semi- 



costata Speyer. Oligocene. 

 Digitaria S. V. Wood, Crag. Moll., Bivalves, p. 191, 1853. Type D. vulgaris Wood, = 



Tellina digitaria Linne. 

 Woodia Deshayes, An. s. Vert, bassin de Paris, i., p. 790, i860 ; Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. India, 



p. 280, 1871 ; Tellina digitaria Linne. 

 Crenimargo Cossmann, Cat. Illustre, App. iii., Dec, 1902. Type C. inaquicrenata Coss- 



mann. Eocene. 

 Rictocyma Dall, Am. Journ. Conch., vii., p. 151, 1872. Type A. mirabilis Dall. 

 Rhectocyma von Martens, Zool. Rec, 1872, p. 170, 1874; new name for Rictocyma Dall. 



