128 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
FaMILy ARCIDA. 
Barbatia fusca Brug.—Four perfect specimens and several 
valves. 
Two or three other species of Avczde are in the collec- 
tion, but all single valves, and somewhat worn. One comes near 
A. japonica Reeve. 
Pectunculus cf novo-caledoniensis Angas.-—One large 
valve and three juvenile examples which seem to be this 
species. 
FamMiLty CARD/ITIDA. 
Mytilicardia muricata Sow.—Many single valves. 
M. variegata Brug.—Several valves. 
Famity ZRYCINIDA. 
Kellia fidelium sp. nov. (PI. IIL, fig. 30). 
K. testa ovato-rotunda, tenut, nitida, lactea, latere postico 
rotundato, antico compresstusculo, vix subguadrato. 
Wie yp ON SG i, BPS PI 
Flab., Lifu. 
A very beautiful milk-white shining species, not unlike 
some of the Sczz/z//e@ in form, but more agreeing with the genus 
Kellia, to which we have relegated it. The hinge appears that 
of anormal Ae//za. Rare. 
FaMILy ZRIDACNIDZ. 
Tridacna crocea Lamarck.—Two perfect specimens, one of 
them a juvenile only 20 mills. wide. 
FaMILy CARDI/DAZ. 
Leevicardium australe Sowerby.—Several. 
Hemicardium cardissa Linné.—One small specimen. 
H. hemicardium Linné.—Several valves. 
H. (Fragum) unedo Linné.—Valves only. 
FAMILY CHAMIDA. 
Chama foliacea Quoy.—Worn valves only, but showing the 
distinctive red staining within. 
FaMILy CYPRINIDA:. 
Libitina angulata Lam.—Several very pretty specimens. 
J.C., viiil., Oct. 1895. 
