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Hab. Shores of Borneo. 

 A smooth species, very sharply beaked on the posterior side. 



96. NE^ERA, Gray. 



1. Ne^ra Moloccana. PI. XXIII. Pig. 4. N. testa tenui, ovata, postice in rostrum angustum 

 elongatum producta, alba, concentrice oblique plicata, plicis undulatis. 



Hab. Islands of the Molucca, Gillolo. 



An interesting elongately-beaked species, oblique wave-plaited across, after the manner 

 of the Psammoiice. 



10. SOLENACEA. 

 97. SOLEN, Linntms. 



1. Solen albida. PL XXIII. Pig. 15. Sol. testa oblonga, utrinque rotundata, tenui, fragili, albida, 

 striis confertis concentricis, postice late hiante. 



Hab. Corean Archipelago. 



Very simply characterized, white, with a very light horny epidermis. 



11. PHOLADABIA. 



98. PHOLAS, LinncBus. 



1. Pholas eivicola. PL XXIII. Pig. 5. (Sow. Thes. pi. cviii. f. 90, 91.) Pliol. testa clausa, cunei- 

 formi, canali transverse divisa, parte antica oblique dimidiata, latere dorsaH striato, latere ventrali Isevi, sub- 

 angulato, parte postica subelongata, lsevi, epidermide laminis angulatis marginibus serratis ornata, lamina 

 dorsali subquadrata, in medio longitudinahter divisa. 



Hab. Pound burrowing in floating logs used as landing places at Gunung Taboor, twelve miles up 

 the Pantai river, where the water was perfectly fresh. 



This species of Pholas, of which several specimens were collected, is chiefly interesting 

 from the circumstance of its inhabiting a river, in a situation where the water was not 

 brackish. 



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