LAMELLIBRANCHIA. 
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ARCIDiO]. 
Area ventrosa (Guppy, 1867, as fossil) described from recent speci- 
mens ; R. J. Lechmere Guppy, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. p. 51, pi. vii. fig. 4, 
Trinidad. 
Nuculid.®. 
Yoldia suhcBquilateraliSy sp. n., Edgar Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 73, 
Kerguelen’s Island. 
Solenella gigantea, id. 1. c. p. 72, Kerguelen’s Island, and S. magellanicd^ 
id. 1. c. p. 118, Otter Island, Straits of Magelhaens, spp. nn. 
Phaseolus (Jeffr., MS.) [long ago pre-occupied by Linn^], g. n. ; three 
oblique laterd.1 teeth as in Cuculloea^ ligament internal. P. ovatus (Jeffr., 
MS.) and tumidulus, spp. nn., Palermo, in a depth of 210 metres, indi- 
cated, but not described. Monterosato, Atti Acc. Palerm. 1876, pp. 4 
& 11 . 
PECTINIDiE. 
Pecten varius (L.). Varieties of colour, the white being distinguished 
by fewer ribs from P. niveus (Macg.) ; Metzger, Ber. Unters. Pomme- 
rania, p. 253. 
Pecten pusio (L.) = multistriatus (Poli), from the Mediterranean and 
Southern Africa, distinguished by the very unequal ears from P. sinuosus 
(Gmel.) = distortus (Dacosta) ; id. ibid. 
Pecten marim, sp. n., J. E. Tenison-Woods, P. R. Soc. Tasm. 1875 
(sep. copy), p. 26, Tasmania. 
OSTREIDiE. 
Ostrea edulis (L.). On its banks and varieties in the German Sea ; 
Metzger, Ber. Unters. Pommerania, p. 252. 
Fischer’s remarks on oyster breeding at Arcachon [Zool. Rec. xi. 
p. 189] are reprinted in J. Zool. iv. pp. 207-214. The acclimatization 
of. Ostrea angulata (Lam., as Gryphoea')^ from Lisbon, has been also 
successful. 
Notes on oyster-fisheries in North America ; Nature, xi. p, 217. 
