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Family — Cardiid.e. 
Genus — Cabdium. 
C’. EciiiNATUM, Linn. 
Not common, in sandy bays. 
C. NODOSUM, Turt. 
Rather rare, from rocky ground oil' Dunstanboro’. 
C'. edule, Linn, (the common cockle). 
Moderately common, in all sandy bays. 
C. norveok'i m, Speng. 
Not common. 
Family — Cyprinid.e. 
Genus — Cyprina. 
C. islanoica, Linn. 
Common, in deepish water on all parts of the coast. 
Xote.— Got occasionally in-shore at the trawling excursions.— A.M. 
Genus — Astarte. 
A. sulcata, Da Costa. 
A. danmonia, Mont. 
Not uncommon, in mud. 
A. COMPRKSSA, Mont. 
Common, in sandy bays. 
Family — V e n ku id.e . 
Genus — Venus. 
V. exoleta, Linn. 
Artemis e., F. and H. 
Frequent, in sandy bays. 
V. lincta, Pult. 
Artemis /., F. and H. 
Frequent, with the last species. 
V. easciata, Da Costa. 
Not common. 
V. ovata, Penn. 
1 have only one specimen, taken three to six miles off Cullercoats. 
Y. gai.lin'a, Linn. 
Common, in the laminarian and coralline zones everywhere. 
Genus — Lucinopsis. 
L. undata, Penn. 
1 have one specimen (said to come from the Low Lights, North 
Shields). It had probably been thrown up by a storm from deep 
water. 
