1863. Anatina siibrostrata Reeve, Conch. Icon., XIV, Anatina, pi. I, fig. 6. 

 1865. Anatina subrostrata Vaillant, Journ. ConchylioL, XIII, p. 121. 



1868. Anatina anatina Conrad, Amer. Journ. Conch., IV, p. 49. 



1869. Anatina subrostrata Issel, Malacol. Mar. Rosso, pp. 151, 356. 



1870. Anatina subrostrata Mac Andrew, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) VI, p. 445. 

 1874. Anatina subrostrata Lischke, Japan. Meeresconch., III, p. loi. 



1885. Anatina siphonata Smith, "Challenger" Lamellibranchia, p. "]€). 



1886. Anatina sîibrostrata Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XVIII, p. 109. 



1887. Anatina subrostrata Fischer, P., Man. ConchylioL, p. 1169, pi. XXIII, fig. 7. 



1888. Anatina subrostrata Paetel, Cat. Conch. Samm., III, p. 22. 



1890. Anatina subrostrata Vassel, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. d'Autun, III, pp. 46, 54. 



1901. Anatina subrostrata Sturany, Denkschr. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math. -Nat.), LXIX, p. 276. 



1902. Anatina subrostrata Shopland, Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, V, p. 177. 



1903. Anatina subrostrata Hidalgo, Obras Malacol., II, p. 39. 



1905. Anatina subrostrata Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 297. 



1906. Anatina subrostrata Melvill & Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 845. 



1909. Anatina anatina Lynge, D. Kgl. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Nat. -Math., (7) V, p. 287. 



1912. Anatina subrostrata Pallary, Mém. Inst. Egypt., VII, p. 185. 



1913. Anatina subrostrata Woodward, B. B., Life of MoUusca, pi. XX, fig. 10. 

 1926. Anatina subrostrata Pallary, Mém. Inst. Egypt., p. 99, pi. XI, figs. 8, i — 4. 



Hanley stated in "Ipsa Linnaei Conchylia" that Linnaeus did not possess a shell of the 

 species he called Solen anatinus, but as he remarked there can be little doubt from the description 

 in "Muséum Ulricae" and the cited illustration that the shell in question is the same as was 

 later given the name Anatina subrostrata by Lamarck. I hâve, therefore, no hésitation in following 

 Lynge in adopting the Linnean spécifie name for this well known species. Cooke and later 

 Lynge suggested that Reeve's species A. eximia and A. jlexttosa are probably synonymous 

 with the species under discussion. I hâve carefully examined the entire collection in the British 

 Muséum (Nat. Hist.), London, and am of opinion that of the species described by Reeve the 

 following should be included in the synonymy of L. anatina (Linn.) : — A. Cumingii (pi. I, 

 fig. i), A. siphonata (pi. I, fig. 2), A. bullata (pi. I, fig. 3), A. flexuosa (pi. I, fig. 5), A. Blainvillei 

 (pi. III, fig. 17), A. labiata (pi. III, fig. 19), A. amphora (pi. IV, fig. 23) and A. eximia (pi. IV, 

 fig. 30). In addition I found a tablet with three shells from the Island of Luzon bearing the 

 manuscript name A. hispidîcla Valenciennes ^) ; thèse shells are young spécimens of L. anatina. 



Distribution: — The species is widely distributed in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific Area. 



The "Siboga" Expédition collected two young shells in Bay of Badjo, West Coast of 

 Flores (St. 50) and St. 320 (6° 5' S., ii4°7'E.). 



2. Laternula rostrata (Sowerby). 



18 18. Anatina truncata Lamarck (ex parte), Anim. sans Vertèb., V, p. 463. 



1831. Anatina truncata Sowerby, Gen. Shells, I, pi. XXXV, fig. i. 



1842. Anatina rostrata Sowerby, Conch. Man., (éd. II), p. 317, fig. 69. 



1863. Anatina truncata Reeve (non Lamarck), Conch. Icon., XIV, Anatina, pi. II, fig. 11. 



1868. Atiatina truncata (Reeve non Lamarck) Conrad, Amer. Journ. Conch., IV, p. 51. 



1903. Anatina rostrata Hidalgo, Obras Malacol., II, p. 40. 



1905. Anatina rostrata Hidalgo, Cat. Filip., p. 296. 



l) Figured (pi. XII, figs. 3, 3a — c) with a short description on p. 565 of Gru-'FITH & Pidgeon (as A. hispidula of Cuvikk), 

 Animal Kingdom, Mollusca (1834). 



