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ZOOLOGICAL LlTEliATUllE. 
adds some historical remarks on the genus Dosina as established by Dr. Gray 
in 1838, which comprises several of the species of Venus mentioned above, 
and is wholly distinct from Doainia of Scopoli and of Gray in 1847 and later. 
Mai. Bliitt. xv. pp. 143-148. 
VenuSy subgen. Cytherea (Lam.), sect. Diane (Gray). A. Shell with 
elevated concentric ribs : dione (L.), lupanaria (l4QS>%.')=semilamello8a (Gaud.) 
.=exspinata (lleeve), multispinosa (Sow.), brevispinosa (Sow.), and rosea 
(Brod.) = /£f/u‘t?a (Chenu), all these with spines or nodules along the area ; 
circinata (Born), alternata (Brod.), concinna {^ow .) =i affinis and tortuosa 
(Brod.), philippinarmn (VL&xAej)=^mendance (Phil.) j all described aud figured 
by Ed. Komer, Monogr. pp. 127-140, pis. 34-37. 
Subsect. Amiantis (Conrad) : D. callosa ( Conrad) = wo6i7/s (Reeve), Rumer, 
pp. 140-142, pi. 38. fig. 1. — B. Shell in tlie middle part smooth: D. imr- 
ptirata (Lam.) and D. unicolor (Sow.) = (Gray)=%M/a (Anton). 
Romer, pp. 143-145, pi. 39. figs. 1 and 2. 
Sect. Lioconcha (Morcli), with a very small palliar sinus: L, arabica 
(Chemn.), including as variety doriiis (Romer) ; callipyga (Born), adansoni 
(Phil.), funicidaia (Riimer), pulchra (Desh.), limenia (Romer), lentiyinosa 
(Chemn.), splendida (Sow.), semiarata (Dunker), castrensis (L.), fastiyiata 
(Sow.), sphrayitis (Romer), tiyrina (Lam.), picta (Lam.), sidcatina (Lam.), 
tnmacidata (Lam.), sowerbyi (Desh.), hicroylyphica (Conrad), and cyrilli 
(Scacchi). Romer, pp. 147-171, pis. 40-46. 
Some figures of Venus, in the conchological work of Martini and Chem- 
nitz, are determined by Dr. Pfeiffer, especially figs. 287-290 of the sixth 
volume, as V. anadyomene (Anton in 1839) = 7sa6e//«ja (Philippi, 1848), and 
V. lamellosa^ Chemnitz, figs. 293, yravescens (Menke). Mai. Blatt. xv. 
pp. 148-155. 
Venus australis, sp. n., Philippi, Mai. Bliitt. xv. p. 225, Straits of Magellan. 
Tapes aureus, var. elonyata, from the basin of Arcachon in France, Des- 
moulins (Actes de laSoci«5t^ Linneenne de Bordeaux, 1868 .^), Journ. Couch, 
xvi. p. 372. 
Tapes beudantii (Payr.) is perhaps a variety of Jlcn idus (Poli) ; its differ- 
ences from viryineus and that of pidlastra (Mont.) from yeoyraphicus are 
pointed out by Hidalgo, Journ. Conch, xvi. pp. 30-32. 
Cyiienidae. 
Cyrena saidcyi, sp. n., Bourguignat, Moll. nouv. lit. fasc. x. p. 315, pi. 45. 
figs. 6-9, Jordan. 
Pisidium steenbuchii (Moller), closely allied to pnlchellmn, Jenyns, Green- 
land, Morch, Am. Journ. Conch, iv. p. 37, pi. 4. fig. 10. 
Pisidium insigne, sp. n., Gabb, ibid. p. 69, pi. 2. fig. 2, Fort Tejon, Cali- 
fomia. 
Caiidiid^. 
Cardium norvegicum (Spengl.). Living specimens observed in the aqua- 
rium at Arcachon j makes considerable leaps. Crosse, Journ. Conch, xvi. 
P- <5. 
Cardium ciliare (Linn^, not Reeve) is=ipaucicostatmn of Sowerby and 
Reeve; C. deshayesii, Payr., is a variety of echinatum (L.); tubercidatiim 
(L.), this name to be restored for rusticum (Ij., Reeve) ; exasperatum (Sow.), 
