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In the "Siboga" collection the species is représentée! by two left valves collectëd in the 

 Bay of Labuan Tring, west coast of Lombok (St. 19) and Ketapang Bay, west coast of Kangeang 

 Island (St. 3 i 7). 



Family Veneridae. 



Genus Meretrix Lamarck. 



1799. Meretrix Lamarck, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 185. 



1801. Meretrix Lamarck, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèb., p. 122. 



1806. Cytherea Lamarck, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, VII, p. 133. 



1818. Cytherea Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., V, p. 561. 



1853. Nyiiipha Môrch, Cat. Yoldi, II, p. 25. 



1853. Meretrix Deshayes, Cat. Conch. Brit. Mus., I, Veneridae etc., p. 34. 



1857. Meretrix Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. MolL, II, p. 423. 



1865. Meretrix Romer, Mon. Venus, I, p. 25. 



1887. Meretrix Fischer, P., Man. Conchyliol., p. 1079. 



1902. Meretrix Dali, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, p. 352. 



1903. Meretrix Dali, Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci. Philadelphia, III, p. 1258. 



Dall's Works referred tô above may be consulted for a good définition of the genus 

 Meretrix. The génotype is Meretrix meretrix (Linn.). 



Cytherea Lamarck (1806) is a synonym of Meretrix Lam., but Cytherea Rôding (1798) 

 is quite distinct. 



I. Meretrix meretrix (Linn.). 



1705. Chanta laevis Rumph, Amboin. Rarit., p. 138, pi. XLIII, fig. G. 



1757. Chanta albida etc. d'Argenville, La Conch., pp. 282, 286, pi. XXI, fig. F. 



1758. Venus Meretrix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., (éd. X), p. 686. 

 1764. Venus Meretrix Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr.., p. 501. 

 1767. Venus Meretrix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., (éd. XII), p. 1132. 



1773. La Gourgandine Knorr, Délices des Yeux, VI, p. 12, pi. VI, fig. 3. 



1780. Venus Meretrix Born, Test. Mus. Caes. Vindobon., p. 65. 



1782. Venus Meretrix etc. Chemnitz, Conch. -Cab., VI, p. 350, pi. XXXIII, figs. 347—353. 



1784. Cochlea ninibata, C. inscripta and C. virgnlata Martyn, Univ. Conch., IV, pi. CXXXVI 



(right figure), pi. CXLII (right figure), pi. CXLII (left figure). 

 1788. Venus meretrix Schrôter, Conch. Cab. Namen Reg., p. 112. 

 1790. Venus Meretrix Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (éd. XIII), p. 3273. 



1797. Bruguière, Encyclopéd. Méthod., pi. CCLX VIII, figs. 5/7, 6, pi. CCLXIX, 

 figs. \a, b, 2a, b, pi. CCLXX, figs. la, b. 



1798. Venus lusoria Roding, Mus. Boltenianum, p. 180. 



1799. Meretrix meretrix Lamarck, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 85. 



1801. Meretrix labiosa Lamarck, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèb., p. 122. 



1802. Venus Meretrix Bosc, Hist. Nat. Coq., III, p. 48. 



1805. Cytherea labiosa de Roissy in Bufi'on, Hist. Nat. Moll., VI, p. 337. 



1817. Cytherea ponderosa Schumacher, Essai Nouv. Syst., p. 150, pi. XV, fig. i. 



1817. Vernis lusoria Dillwyn, Descr. Cat., I, p. 177. 



18 18. Cytherea lusoria^ C. petechialis, C. inipudica, C. castatiea, C. zonaria, C. meretrix, C. gra- 



phica and C. morphina Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., V, pp. 561, 562. 

 1824. Cytheria (sic) lusoria, C. petechialis, C. impudica, C. castanea, C. zonaria, C. meretrix, 

 C. graphica and C. morphina Dubois, Epitome, p. 69. 



