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valvis circa umbones confertim sulcatis, deinde Isevibus ;" and the 

 interior of the margin is smooth, as in the species I refer it to. 

 A. depressa of Brown, is a more doubtful species, neither the 

 figure or description applying well to any recent species with 

 which I am acquainted. 



14.— ASTARTE COMPRESSA Montagu. 



1808. Venus compressa Montagu partim (non Linn.) 



Test. Brit. Suppl., p. 43, pi. xxvi,, f t. at top. 

 1817. V. montagui Dillwyn. Rec. Shells, vol. L, p. 167. 

 1819. V. montacuti Turton, Conch. Diction., p. 24^. j 

 1819. Nicania striata Leach. Ross. Voy. Append., p. -^7^ ; 



Thomson's Ann, Phil., 1819, vol. xiv., p. 204. 

 1819. N. banksii Leach. Ross., p. 176; Ann. Phil., p. 204. 

 1S22. Crassina striata Nilsson. Kongl. Vetenskaps. Acad. 



Handlingar, p. 189, pi. ii., f 6. 

 1822, Cyprina compressa Turton. Conch. Ins. Brit., p. 136 



pi. xi., f 22 — 2. 

 1825. Venus Banksii Blainville. Man. MalacoL, p. 558. 

 1825. Crassina banksii Gray. Ann. Phil, vol. ix., p. 136. 

 1825. C. montagui Gray. Ann. Phil, vol ix., p. 136. 

 1827. C. striata Brown. 111. Rec. Conch., ed. i, pi xviii., 



f. 6 — 8 ; ed. 2, pi xxxviii., f. 6 — 8. 

 1827. C. convexiuscula Brown. 111. Conch., pi xviii., f. 7. 



1827. C. obliqua Brown, Ic, f 6. 



1828. Astarte compressa Fleming. Brit. Anim., p. 440. 

 1839. A, banksii Sowerby. Beechey's Voy., p. 152, pi xliv., 

 1839. A. striata, id.. I.e., f. 10 (non 9). [f. 9 (non 10). 

 1839. Crassina multicostata J. Smith. Brown, Mem. 



Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. viii., p. 104, pi i., i. 19. 

 1842. Astarte banksii Sab. Moller, Naturhist. Tidsk., p. 92. 

 1842. A. striata, id., Ic, p. 93. 



J.C, iii., July, 1881 



