Family Solenidae. 



Genus Solecurtus Blainville. 



1824. Solecurtus Blainville, Dict. Sci. Nat., XXXII, p. 351. 



1825. Solecurtus Blainville, Man. Malacol., p. 568. 

 1844. Solenocurtus Brown, Conch. Great Britain, p. 113. 

 1847. Pliorus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 189. 

 1S56. Pharus Adams, H. & A., Gen. Rec. Moll., II, p. 343. 



1874. Solecurtus Sowerby, in Reeve Conch. Icon., XIX, Solecurtus, pi. I (explanation). 



1887. Pharus Fischer, P., Man. Conchyliol., p. 1108. 



1897. Solecurtus von Martens in Weber's Zool. Ergebn. Reise Ost- Ind., IV, Siiss-Brackw. 



Moll., p. 255. 

 1900. Solecurtîis Dali, (ex parte), Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci. Philadelphia, III, p. 958. 



The correct spelling of this genus is Solecurtus and not Solenocurtus. For good définitions 

 of the genus référence may be made to Adams, Fischer and von Martens, while Dall may 

 be consulted for the historical account. The génotype is Solenocurtus legumen (Linn.). 



I. Solecurtus {^Azor') coarctatîis (Gmehn). 



1782. Solen constrictus etc. Chemnitz, Conch. -Cab., VI, pp. 39, 62, pi. VI, fig. 45. 



1788. Solen constrictus Schroter, Conch.-Cab. Namen Reg., p. 97. 



1790. Solen coarctatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (éd. XIII), p. 3227. 



1793. Solen emarginatus Spengler, Skrivt. Nat. Selsk., III, Hft. 7, p. 105. 



1802. Solen coarctatus Bosc, Hist. Nat. Coq., III, p. 14. 



18 17. Solen coarctatus Dillwyn, Descr. Cat., I, p. 64. 



18 18. Solen coarctatus and 5". constrictus Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., V, p. 455. 

 1827. Solen constrictus Blainville, Dict. Sci. Nat., XLIX, p. 421. 



1835. Solen coarctatus and 5". constrictus Deshayes in Lamarck, Anim. sans Vertèb., VI, p. 59. 



1852. Mâcha Scheepniakeri Dunker, Zeitschr. Malakozool., IX, p. 56. 



1861. Azor oblongus and A. solidus Dunker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 425. 



1861. Solen abbreviatus Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VIII, p. 26. 



1862. Solen abbreviatus Gould, Otia Conch., p. 164. 



1869. Azor [Mâcha) Scheepmakeri Dunker, Novitat. Conch., II, p. 121, pi. XXXIX, figs. 10, li. 



1874. Solecurtîis oblongus, S. solidus (non Gray), 5". abbreviatus and 5. scheepmacheri (sic) 



Sowerby in Reeve, Conch. Icon., XIX, Solecurtîis, pi. I, figs. 2, 3, pi. II, figs. 6a, b, 14. 



1884. Mâcha [Azor) coarctata Tryon, Struct. Syst. Conch., III, p. 134, pi. CVI, fig. 14. 



1885. Solecurtus [Azor) coarctatus Smith, "Challenger" Lamellibranch., p. 79. 



1885. Solecurtus abbreviatus de Morgan, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, X, p. 366. 



1886. Solecurtus coarctatus Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XVIII, p. 108. 



1888. Solecurtus abbreviatus Clessin in Martini-Chemn., Conch.-Cab. (N.F.), XI (3) Solenaceen, 



p. 93, pi. XXII, fig. 3. 

 1890. Solecurtus [Azor) abbreviatus Paetel, Cat. -Conch. Samm., III, p. 14. 

 1895. Solecurtus constrictus Pilsbry, Cat. Mar. Moll. Japan, p. 121. 



1897. Solecurtus [Mâcha) scheepmakeri von Martens in Weber's Zool. Ergebn. Reise Ost-Ind., 



IV, Sùss-Brackw. Moll., p. 259. 



1898. Solecurtus [Azor) coarctatus Melvill & Sykes, Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, III, p. 48. 



1899. Solecurtus [Azar, sic) coarctatus Melvill & Standen, Trans. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.), 



XXVII, p. 198. 

 1906. Solecurtîis [Azor) coarctatus Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) XVIII, p. 263. 

 1906. Solecurtus constrictus Owston, Japan. Loochooan Shells, p. 41. 

 1906. Solecurtus coarctatus Melvill & Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 844. 

 1908. Novaculina andamanensis Preston, Rec. Ind. Mus., II, p. 209, pi. XVI, fig. 40. 



