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MOLLUSCA. 
Donax dt/soni (Desh.) = introradiatus (Romer, nec Reeve) ; Lischke, 1. c. 
p. 91, Japan. 
Paphiidjj. 
\_Mesodesma\ Ceronia donacia (Lam.) ; soft parts described by Tappa- 
rone-Canefri, Malac. viagg. Magenta, pp. 122, pi. iv. fig. 3. 
l^Mesodesma] Taria ventrlcosa (Gray) ; E. Smith, Moll. Voy. Ereb. & 
Terr. p. 5, pi. iii. fig. 6. 
Mactrid^. 
Mactra discors (Gray), juv., M. (Spisula) cequilateralis (Desh.), and 
(Stnndella) ovata (Gray) ; E. Smith, 1. c. pi. ii. figs. 4, 10, & 2. 
Vanganella taglori (Gray) ; id. 1. c. fig. 6. 
L'utraria nuttalli (Conrad) ; soft parts described by Tapparone-Canefri, 
Malac. viagg. Magenta, p. 123, pi. iii. fig. 5. 
VeNERIDJ]. 
Dosinia genmi^ sp. n., Tapparone-Canefri, 1. c. p. 127, pi. iii. fig. 4, St. 
Thomas Island. 
Dosinia subrosea (Gray) ; E. Smith, Moll. Voy. Ereb. & Terr. pi. iii. 
fig. 1, type. 
Dosinia troscheli (Lischke, 1873), from Southern Japan, fully de- 
scribed ; Lischke, Jap. Meer. Conch, iii. p. 89, pi. viii. figs. 1-3. D. 
japonica (Rve.) is a large variety of it; id. 1. c. p. 88. 
Circe undatina (Lam.), from Yeddo. On its very near affinities to 
scrip ta (L.) ; id. 1. c. p. 87. 
Meroe. List of known species, and M. roster siana (Crosse) fully 
described ; Crosse, J. de Conch, xxii. pp. 89-97, pi. iii. fig. 7. M. exca- 
vata (Hanley, 1842) = menstrualis (Menke) = magnijica (Reeve), from 
Japan, distinct from M. vaginalis (Menke), from Australia, which has 
been figured as excavata by Romer ; Lischke, 1. c. pp. 365-368. 
Tapes schnellianus (Dkr.), amabilis (Phil.), and euglyptus (Phil.) var. ; 
id. 1. c. pp. 80-82, pi. vi. figs. 1-4, 5-7, 8-11. T. semidecussatus (Desh.) 
and ducalis (Romer) = pldlippinarim (A. Ad.) varr, ; id. 1. c. pp. 78 & 
79, all from Japan. The length of the palliul sinus is somewhat 
variable in T. papilionaceus (L.) and T. euglyptus (Phil.) ; id. 1. c. 
p. 81. 
Venus jedlj^oensis, sp. n., id. JB. mal. Ges. i. p. 57, and 1. c. p. 84, 
pi. vii. figs. 1-9, Yeddo. 
Venus oblonga (Gray) ; E. Smith, Moll. Voy. Ereb. & Terr. pi. ii. 
fig. 1. Dosinia zelandica (Gray) is a variety of this species; id. 1. c. 
p. 6. 
Venus roseotincta, sp. n., Baird, in Brenchley’s Cruise of the Cura9oa, 
p. 452, pi. xlii. figs. 1-3, New Caledonia. 
Venus (Chione) yatii (Gray), and stutchburii (Gray) ; Smith, 1. c. 
pi. iii. figs. 1 1 & 4. 
