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1867- Vejiiis [Chione-Oiiiplialoclathruni) puerpera Romer, Malakozool. Blâtt., XIV, p. 30. 



1867. Vernis puerpera Mitchell, Cat. Mus. Madras, p. 64. 



1869. Venus puerpera Dunker, Cat. Mus. Godefifroy, IV, p. 109. 



1869. Venus pîierpera Pfeiffer in Martini-Chemn., Conch.-Cab. (N. F.), XI (i), Veneracea, p. 145, 

 pi. X, figs. 4, S. 



1879. Venus puerpera von Martens, Monatsber. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 744. 



1880. Venus [Antigona) puerpera von Martens, Mobius Beitràge Meeresf. Mauritius, Seychell., p. 326. 



1881. Venus puerpera de Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philomat. Paris, (7) V, p. 15. 

 1884. Venus puerpera Tryon, Struct. Syst. Conch., III, p. 176, pi. CXIII, fîg. 9. 



1884. Venus puerpera Grasset, Ind. Test. Viv., p. 262. 



1885. Venus [Antigona) puerpera Smith. "Challenger" Lamellibranchia, p. 120. 



1887. Venus [Çhione-Oniphaloclathruui) puerpera Fischer, P., Man. Conchyliol., p. 1084. 



1890. Chione [Omphaloclathrum) puerpera Paetel, Cat. Conch. Samm., III, p. 153. 



1891. Venus puerpera Fischer, P., Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. d'Autun, IV, p. 233. 

 1896. Venus puerpera Casto de Elera, Cat. Sist. Filip., p. 757. 



1898. Chione [Omphaloclathrum] puerpera Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., IX, p. Z^. 

 1903. Venus puerpera Hidalgo, Obras Malacol., II, p. 279. 



1905. Venus piierpera Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 337. 



1906. Venus puerpera Owston, Japan. Loochooan Shells, p. 38. 



1909. Vernis [Omphaloclatruvï] puerpera Lamy, Mém. Soc. Zool. France, XXII, p. 346. 



1910. Cytherea puerpera Hedley, Austral. Ass. Adv. Sci., XII, p. 349. 



191 1. Venus {Antigona) puerpera Lamy, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, XVIII, p. 163. 

 1911. Venus puerpera Pelseneer, "Siboga" Lamellibranches (Anat.) p. 53. 



1927. Antigona puerpera Cox, Rep. Palaeontol. Zanzibar, p. 100. 



1928. Venus puerpera Faustino, Summary Philippine Mar. Freshw. MolL, p. 69. 



1929. Chione puerpera Dautzenberg, Faun. Colon. Français., III, p. 602. 



Antigona ptierpera is a very variable species and though at first I was inclined to 

 consider Venus lacerta Hanley ^), Vernis aegrota Reeve -) and probably Venus magnifica Hanley ^) 

 as distinct from it, I hâve, after a careful examination of the large collections in the British 

 Muséum (Nat. Hist.), London, corne to the conclusions that ail of thèse so-called species are 

 based on slight individual variations of A. puerpera. The species has been vvrell defined by Cox 

 in his récent memoir cited above.^ 



Distribution: — A. puerpera is a vi^ide spread Indo- Pacific species. 



In the "Siboga" collection there are shells of this species from the Bay of Bima (St. 47), 

 Lamakera, Solor Island (St. 61), Anchorage off Beo, Karakelang Islands (St. 131), Anchorage 

 off Laiwui, coast of Obi Major (St. 142), west side of Taam Island (St. 252), Dobo, Aru Islands 

 (St. 272) and Sapeh Bay, east coast of Sumbawa (St. 311). 



3. Antigona reticulata (Linn.). 



1685. Pectiinciilus gravis etc., Lister, Hist. Conch., pi. CCCXXXV, fig. 172. 



1742. Concha Cordiformis etc., Gualtieri, Ind. Test., pi. LXXXIII, figs. F. F. 



1753. Omphaloclathrum Bengalensis etc., Klein, Tent. Meth. Ostracol., p. 148, pi. X, fig. 52. 



1758. Venus reticulata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., (éd. X), p. 687. 



1764. Venus reticulata Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. . Ulr., p. 503. 



i) Hanley, S. — Proc. Zool. Soc. London (volume for 1844), p. 161 (1845) and Reeve, L., Conch. Icon., XIV, Ventts^ pi. VI, 

 fig. 18 (1863). 



2) Reeve, L. — Op. cit., pi. XVII, fig. 74 (1863). 



3) Hanley, S. — Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 21 (1845) and Reeve, L., op. cit., pi. V, fig. 17 (1863). 

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