232 SMITH : ON THE GENUS ASTARTE. 



Subgenus GONILIA. 



26.— ASTARTE BI PARTITA Philippi. 



1836. Lucina ? bipartita Phil. Enum. Moll. Sicil., vol. i., 

 p. 32, pi. iii., f. 2\a — c; vol. ii., p. 25. 



1844. Astarte bipartita Philippi. Zeitschr. Malakol, vol. i., 



p. 100. 



1845. A. bipartita PhiHppi. Abbild, vol, ii., p. 60, pi. i., f. 9. 

 1872. A. (Gonilia) bipartita Tryon. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philad., p. 248. 

 1881. A. bipartita Jeffreys. P.Z.S., p. 713. 



Habitat. — Sicily (Philippi); Gulf of Tunis (McAndrew). 



ASTARTE (WOODIA) DIGITARIA Linne. 



Since writing the above, I find in a recent paper upon the mollusca of the 

 "Lightning" and "Porcupine" expeditions, tliat Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys refers 

 the Tfllina digitaria I.inne (Lucitia digitalis of Lamarck) to the genus Astarte, 

 and in this location I fully concur, but whether it be advisable to retain it in 

 the subgenus Woodia of Deshayes is a matter of individual opinion. Perhaps 

 if the section Gonilia be maintained on account of the peculiarity of its sculpture, 

 we must, to be consistent, also retain Woodia for the same reason. Figures 

 of this species will be found in Philippi's Enum. Moll. Sicil., pi. iii, f. 19; 

 Delessert's Recueil^ pi. vi., f. 10a, b, c ; Reeve's Con. Icon. (Lucina) f. 65; 

 Jeffreys' Brit. Con., vol. v., pi. c, f. 6. 



Planorbls complanatus monst. sinistrorsum. — In 



the beginning of last June, I was fortunate enough to take at Wye, 

 in Kent, a fine reversed specimen of Planorbis complanatus. — 

 (Miss) F. M. Hele, Bristol, Aug. 1881. 



Limnaea truncatula var. albida at Folkestone. — It 



may interest some of your readers to hear that I have found near 

 here L. truncatula var. albida in the minor form. Unfortunately 

 the locality is injured if not quite destroyed. — (Mrs.)J. Fitzgerald, 

 Folkestone. 



J.C, iii., October, 1881 



