TELLINlDiE. 
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Tellina. Romer commences the monograph of this genus in 
Kiister^s continuation of Martini and Chemnitz^ sect. 62. 39 
spp. are aecurately described and figured (pp. 1-64, pis. 1-18), 
two of which only have not been figured in the works of Sowerby 
and Reeve, viz. 2\ diaphana (Desh.), Japan, pi. 13. figs. 7—9, and 
T. semilcBvis (Martens), E. Africa, pi. 18. figs. 1-3. 
Tellina pr<Btexta (Martens), nitidula (Dimker), and iridella (Martens), 
Lisclike, J. M. Conch, ii. pp. 113 & 114, pi. 10. figs. 14, 10 & 11, 8 & 9, Japan. 
Tellina pollidula, sp. n., Lisclike, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 42, and J. M.-Conch. ii* 
p. 114, pi. 10, figs. 6 & 7, Nagasaki. 
Tellina nasuta (Conrad), vfix. — dissimilis (Martens), id, ibid, p. 115, pi. 10. 
figs. 15-17, Yokohama; T. inqidnata (Desh.), y 2 ix.^ incongrua (Martens), id, 
ibid. p. 117, figs. 12 & 13, Yokohama and Nagasaki. 
Tellina clara, sp. n., Dunker, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 171, Picador I. 
llomala (H. & A. Adams) is renamed Homalina, with Tellina triangularis 
(Chemn.) for type, Homala (Schum.) being founded on T, planata (Gmel.) : 
Stoliczka, Pal. Ind. iii. sect. vi. p. 118. 
JDonax dysoni (Desh.), Lisclike, Jap. Meeres-Conch. p. 112, Nagasaki and 
Yokohama. 
Sc7'obictdaria. R^cluz (Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxvii. pp. 49-56) vindicates for 
this genus Cuvier’s name Lavignon (which, however, cannot stand, being 
French and not Latin), and distinguishes the following spp., all European : — 
L. calcinella (Adanson) (Dacosta) = (Mont.), Atlantic coast 
of Africa and Europe; piperntus (Belon, Lam.), Mediterranean ; lactcus (Am- 
phidesma, Lam.) = cotiardii (Payr.), Corsica and Provence, pi. 4, figs. 6-7 ; 
deshayesi, p. 66, pi. 3. figs. 4-0, Provence, and moulmsi, ibid, and figs. 1-3, 
Languedoc : spp. nn. 
Mactrid^e. 
Mactra paulucciee, sp. n., Aradas & Benoit, Atti Acc. Gioen. (3) v. 
Syracuse. 
Mactra spectahiliSf sp. n., Lischke, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 149, and J. M.-Conch. ii. 
p. 120, pi. 11. figs. 1 & 2, Kiusiu I., Japan. 
Mactra veneiiformis (Desh.), var., id. ibid. p. 121, pi. 9. figs. 7 & 8, Yeddo. 
Mactra {Trigonclla') radiata, Formosa, and Icevis, MossolBay, S. Africa, spp. 
nu., Dunker, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 171. 
Mactra {Spisula) Jluviatilis, sp. n., Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 20, pi. 1. fig. 31, 
11. Hawkesbury, brackish water, N. S. Wales. 
VENERIDAi. 
Cytherea {Callista) semperi, sp. n., Dunker, 1. c. p. 172, Pt. Mackay. 
Cytherea (^Caryatis) indecora (Phil.), Lischke, J. M.-Conch. ii. p. 109 
Nagasaki. 
Circe dispar (Juheimi.') — mmcaria, pidicaria, dindi mixta (Lam.), id. ibid., 
Nagasaki. 
Meroe excavata (H.&xii.')=menstrualis {WQVL\i&)~magniJica (Reeve), id. 
ibid, p. 110, Japan. 
Romer (“ Monographie der Mollusken Gattung Venus," vol. ii. pts. 30-36, 
