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though actually mentioning the page of his predecessor's work, 

 states that the habitat of the species is unknown. Such evidence 

 of carelessness supports me in concluding that Sowerby again 

 described this species as T. obliquistriata,* from " Kingsmill 

 Island," by which the Kingsmill or Gilbert Group are doubtless 

 intended. It is in this Museum from Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 



TELLINA RHOMBOIDES, Quay & Gaimard. 

 Smith, Chall. Rep., Zool, xiii., 1885, p. 103. 



Abundant in the lagoon. 



Reported by Smith, under various names, from Guam in the 

 Ladrones ; Cape York, (Queensland ; and Levuka, Fiji ; and by 

 Melvill and Standen from Lifu. It is in this Museum from 

 Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 



TELLIXA ROBUSTA, Hauley. 

 Sowerby, loc. cit., pi. xvi., sp. 77. 



The yellow variety occurred in profusion in the lagoon. 

 Hanley reports this from Anaa, Paumotus ; Schmeltz from 

 Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Upolu. I have taken it at Hyenghien, 

 New Caledonia. There are examples in the Museum from the 

 Isle of Pines. 



TELLINA OPALINA, Sowerby. 



(Fig. 52). 

 Sowerby, loc cit., pi. xliv., sp. 258. 



The paucity of information given by Sowerby permits no 

 accurate determination, but suggests this name for a species of 

 which I took a dozen odd valves on the beach of the lagoon. The 

 species in question is in length 5-5, and in height 3-7 mm. ; very 

 glcssy, radiately marked with translucent and opaque lines or 

 dashes, the concentric sculpture almost effaced. 



The original description gave no locality. Melvill and Standen 

 supply! Madras and the Moluccas. 



* Sowerby -Conch. Icon., xvii., 1866, pi. xliv., sp. 256. 

 f Melvill and Standen Journ. Conch., ix., 18U8, p. 85. 



