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MOLLUSC A. 
pp. 65-112, pl3. 22-86, Oassel, 4to) thus continues his monograph of 2'apeSy 
accurately describing and figuring the following spp. : — 
Sect. ii. Parembola : pulchella (Lam.) = (Desh.), hicolorata 
(Reeve), tenuistriata (Sow.), ohsoleta (Chemn.) = corrw^a^a (Gmel.), dacty- 
hides and disrupta (Sow.) : pp. 66-71, pis, 23&24. 
Sect. iii. Amygdala (Rom.) : decussata (L.), only from the European 
seas j denticulata (Sow.), indica (Hanl.), punicea and violascens (Desh.), vane- 
gala (Sow.), scmidecussata (Desh.), philippinarmn (Ad. & Reeve), ducalis 
(Rom.), intermedia (Q. & G.), anatina (Sow.), senegalensis (G(mQ\.)=pidlastra 
and perforans QAoiai.'), Jlorida (Lam.) and varr. hicolor, petalina^ and eateni- 
fera (Lam.), and of which acuminata (Sow.) is stated to be the young state, 
geographica (Ohemn.), glandina , fahagella (Desh.), nitens (Scacchi), 
cumingi (Sow.), galactites (T am.), hruguieri (Ilanl.), cinerea (Desh.), analis 
(Phil.) : pp. 71-97, pis. 26-33. 
Sect. iv. IIemitapes (Rom.): virginea (l-i.^—Jtammiculataj callipyga^ and 
rimidaris (Lam.), hiantina and tristis (Lam.), striata (Chemn.)=y«j^owica 
{GvLnA.)=ielegantina and vermiculata (Lam.) (Ad. Sc Reeve), &c., 
cor (Sow.), marmorata (Lam.), reeens (Chemn.)= ?nannora^a and orientalis 
(Reeve), variahilis (Phil.), laterisulca (Lam.), dohmi and apaturia (Rom.), 
Jlammea (OimQ\,)—radiata (Ohemn.) and exserta (Rom.): pp. 97-112, pis. 
33-36. 
[^Tapes'] Venus decussata (i^.^—truncata (Lam.) from the Indian seas, and is 
not the common European sp., which must therefore take the name of rcti- 
cxdata (Dacosta) : Recluz, Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxvii. p. 68. [It is seldom 
profitable to change long-accepted names; moreover, Linnaeus may have 
included both these spp. under his decussata.'] 
Paratapes. Stoliczka, 1. c. p. 144, proposes this generic name for Rdmer’s 
section Textrix (type, Venus textrix, Ohemn.), preoccupied among the An- 
nelides. 
Glossocardia, g. n. Two cardinal teeth and a somewhat remote posterior 
lateral tooth ; upper cardinal tooth of the right valve bent downwards ; 
antero-inferior tooth of the left valve sickle-shaped. Type G. ( Cypricardid) 
ohesa (Reeve). Id. 1. c. p. 189. 
Cypricardia coralliophaga (Ohemn.), Lischke, J. M.-Oonch. ii. p. 140, 
Nagasaki; C. lirata (Reeve), Bay of Yeddo, id. ibid. p. 173. 
PETllICOLIDiE. 
Petricola mirahilis (Desh.), id. ibid. p. 122, Nagasaki. 
Petricolaria. Stoliczka, 1. c. p, 139, proposes this generic name for Petricola 
pholadifoi'mis (Lam.). 
CYllENIDiE. 
Cyrena (^Corhictda) Jluminalis (Miill.), Samarcand : Martens, Mai. Bl. xviii. 
p. 66, pi. 1. figs. 12-14. 
Cyclas rivicola (Leach) found near Heilbronn, Wirtemberg : Krauss, 
JII. Ver. AViirtt. 1871, p. 11. 
SpJuxrium consobrimmi {Cyclas, F<5r.) redescribed from Swedish specimens : 
'VVesterlund, Expos, crit. p. 154. 
Pisidium 2 >asilium (Gmel., Jenyns); milium (Held, 18Q&) =gassiesianum 
(Dupuy, \84Q)=pulcheUuin, \‘ai\ b (jQnynd)=arc(Bforme (Malm); supinum 
(Ad. Schmidt, 1850) = mnc«Dn (Baudon), and varr., all from Germany, are 
