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MOLLUSCA. 
Pectunculua savignyi, Fischer, J. de Oonch. xix. p. 219, Suez (fig. inDescr. 
de TEgypte, Moll. pi. 10. fig. 4) j P. tmnidus and pet'obliquus, Dunker, Mai, 
Bl. xviii. pp. 178 & 174, Polynesia : spp. nn. 
Limcq>sis h'azieri, sp. n., Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 21, pi. 1. fig. 84, Pt. Jackson. 
Nuculid^. 
Nucula crassicostata, sp. n.. Smith, tbid. p. 729, pi. 76. fig. 6, Wydah. 
Leda tuberculata, id. ibid. p. 728, pi. 75. fig. 1, Wydah j L. arcuata, Sowerhy, 
in Reeve’s ‘ Conchologia Iconica,’ part 289, fig. 20^ locality unknown j planu- 
laitty id. ibid. fig. 22, Patagonia j bicostatay id. ibid. fig. 87, Panama : spp. nn. 
Pectinid^. 
Pecten yessoensis (Jay), from Ilakodade, laquoatus (Sow.) and quadriliratus 
(Lischke), Nagasaki : Lischke, J. M.-Conch. ii. pp. 157 & 168, pis. 18, 12, & 
9. figs. 6 & 6. P. Icetus : Red-Sea individuals attributed to this belong to an- 
other sp. ; irregidaris (Sow.) (Reeve) ; id. ibid, pp. 157 & 158. P, 
squamatus (GmeL), from Japan, id. ibid.i^. 178. 
Pecten rubellusy sp. n., Dunker, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 178, Rockhampton. 
Lima squamosa (Lam.), Nagasaki : IJschke, 1. c. pp. 156 & 166. 
Spondylidas. 
Plicatula echinatay sp. n., Dunker, 1. c. p. 174, China Sea. 
OsTRElD.E. 
Ostrea. Sowerby’s continuation of the monograph of this genus in Reeve’s 
< Conchologia Iconica,’ pt. 288, pis. 17-27. figs. 86-68, contains the following 
so-called new species: — O. reiwsa, fig. 42,/7ma, fig. A^ysandwicensis [s7c],fig. 66, 
Sandwich I. j quercinus [s7c], fig. 48, lacteay fig. 48, attenuatay fig. 49, reniformisy 
fig. 67, lentiginosay fig. 68, multiradiatay fig. 69, auriculatay fig. 60, and multi- 
costata, fig. 61, Japan j lugubrisy N. America, fig. 68 j crenuliferay Red Sea, 
fig. 67. The following are here figured for the first time : — O. cimnnitzi 
(Hanley), China, fig. 47 ; tubermdaiis (Lam.), Timor, fig. 60 j lace\'ans (Han- 
ley), Senegal, fig. 61 j palmipes (Sow.), Pliilippines, fig. 56 \^^pauluccice 
(Crosse, 1869), see. Crosse], and alyoensis (Sow.), Algoa Bay, fig. 66. 
Ostrea edulis. Some notes on oyster-banks and breeding on the Danish 
coasts are to be found in Tids. Naturvid. (4) iii. 1871, by Collin ) in Tids. Fisk, 
by Samme ; and in Vid. Medd., 1871, p. 222, by Morch, 
On the season for Sleswig oysters to contain eggs, cf. Mobius, Nachr. 
malak. Ges. iii. pp. 131-184. The same author (Zool. Gart. xii. pp. 339-342), 
under the title “ Ueber die neuere Austernzucht im Allgemeinen, und ihre 
Anwendbarkeit an unseren Kiisten,” gives an extract of his larger paper on 
oyster-breeding noticed in Zool. Rec. vii. pp. 113 & 179. 
Some particulars and statistics concerning successful oyster-breeding at 
Arcachon and the islands of Re and Noirmontiers, on the west coast of 
France, are to be found in Fischer’s suppl. to the Conchol. fauna of the Gi- 
ronde, Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxvii. pp. 75-80. 
