242 



1884. Tapes variegata Grasset, Ind. Test. Viv., p. 269. 



1884. Tapes variegata Smith, Rept. Voy. "Alert", p. 97. 



1887. Tapes variegata von Martens, Journ. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.), XXI, p. 213. 



1889. Tapes variegata Morlet, Journ. Conchyliol., XXXVII, p. 170. 



1890. Tapes [Amygdala) punicea and T. [A.) z^jainV^rt/rt Peatel, Cat. Conch. Samm., III, pp. 81, 82. 



1891. Tapes variegatus Fischer, P.. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. d'Autun, IV, p. 150. 



1895. Tapes variegatus Pilsbry, Cat. Mar. Moll. Japan, p. 130. 



1896. Tapes {Amygdala) variegata Casto de Elera, Cat. Sist. Filip., p. 749. 

 1903. Tapes variegatus Hidalgo, Obras Malacol., II, p. 274. 



1905. Tapes variegatus Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 335. 



1906. Tapes variegata Owston, Japan. Loochooan Shells, p. 39. 



1909. Tapes {Ruditapes) variegatus Lynge, D. Kgl. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Nat. -Math., 



(7) V, p. 240. 



1910. Paphia variegata Hedley, Austral. Ass. Adv. Sci., XII, p. 349. 



191 1. Tapes variegatus Pelseneer, "Siboga" Lamellibranches (Anat.), pi. XIX, fig. 8. 

 1917. Tapes variegata Odhner, Kungl. Svensk. Akad. Handl., LII, N". 16, p. 9. 



1928. Tapes punicea and T. variegata Faustino, Summary Philippine Mar. Freshw. Moll., pp. 81, 82. 



ToMLiN ^) suggested that Tapes variegata Sowerby is a synonym of Paphia philippinarum 

 (A. Adams & Reeve), I hâve re-examined the entire material in the British Muséum (Nat. 

 Hist.), London, and am unable to agrée with this conclusion. In P. (A.) variegata the shell is 

 much more compressed, the umbones are less tumid, and the sculpture is more délicate than 

 that of P . {A.) philippinarum. 



Lynge (op. cit.) was of opinion that T. violascens Deshayes ^) can scarcely be separated 

 from P. [A.) variegata, but the species, as is discussed further, is a synonym of P. {A.) 

 bruguieri (Hanley). 



Distribution : — P . {A.) variegata has been recorded from as far west as Mergui in the 

 Indian Océan and from Japan in the North to Australia and Tahiti in the South in the Pacific Océan. 



The "Siboga" Expédition collected two young shells of this species at the Anchorage 

 off Dongala, Palos Bay, Celebes (St. 86). 



9. Paphia {Amygdala^ bruguieri (Hanley). 



1797. Bruguière, Encyclopéd. Méthod., pi. CCLXXXIII, figs. \a, b. 



1845. Vejius Bruguieri Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 21. 



1852. Tapes Bruguieri Sowerby, Thés. Conch., II, p. 696, pi. CLI, figs. 130, 131. 



1853. Tapes violascens Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 10. 



1853. Tapes violascens and T. Bruguieri Deshayes, Cat. Conch. Brit. Mus., I, Veneridae etc., 



pp. 181, 183. 

 1853. Tapes Bruguierii} Morch, Cat. Yoldi, II, p. 20. 



1856. Venus Bruguieri Hanley, Rec. Biv. Shells, Appendix, p, 362, pi. XV, fig. 59. 



1857. Tapes [Ciineus] Bruguieri Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., II, p. 436. 

 1860. Tapes Brngîiieri Reeve, Elem. Conch., II, p. 106. 



1864. Tapes Bruguieri and T. violascens Reeve, Conch. Icon., XIV, 7<«/'^.y, pi. XIII, figs. 68, 73. 

 1864. Venus [Tapes, Amygdala) Bruguieri Romer, Malakozool. Blatt., XI, p. 80. 

 1869. Tapes (Cuneus) Bruguieri Adams. A., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) III, p. 235. 

 1871. } Venus [Tapes, Amygdala) violascens and V. [T., A.) Bruguieri Rômer, Mon. Venus, II, 

 p. jj, pi. XXVII, figs. 1, la, b\ p. 94, pi. XXXIl, figs. 4, 4a — c. 



1) ToMUN, J. R. LE B. — Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, XV, p. 313 (1923). 



2) See Reeve, L. - Conch. Icon., XIV, Tapes, pi. XllI, fig. 68 (1864). 



