ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
CORBULID^. 
Corhula contraeta (Say) figured by T. A. Conrad, Am. Journ. Ooncb. ii. 
p. 280, pi. 15. fig. 12, North Carolina. 
Azara undata j sp. n., Conrad, 1. c. p. 280, pi. 15. figs. 9, 10, 15, Rio de la 
Plata. 
Anatinid^e. 
Periploma fragilis (Totten), from Massachusetts. Conrad insists upon its 
distinctness from the more southern P. papyratia (Say), and its near affinity 
to the miocene P. alta (Conrad), Am. Joum. Conch, ii. p. 106. — P. papy~ 
raceum (Say) figured ibid. pi. 15. fig. 6. 
■ Thracia hiatelloidea^ sp. n., Brusina, Faun. Moll. Dalmat. p. 40, Adriatic. 
Order CAEDIACEA, Cuvier {yeneracea, Adams). 
‘ MACTRIDiE. 
Mactra liihdorjii (see Record for 1864, p. 241) figured by Bunker, Novitat. 
Conch, pi. 20. 
Tellinid^. 
Tellina (Angulus?') tampaensis, sp. n., Conrad, Am. Joum. Conch, ii. p. 281, 
pi. 15. fig. 8, Florida. — Tellina danilianay sp. n., Brusina, Faun. Moll. Balmat. 
p. 41, Adriatic. 
Licinopsis coirugatay sp. n., Brusina, 1. c., Adriatic. 
Donax. In the monograph in Sowerby’s Thesaurus, part 24, vol. iii. 
plates 280-283, sixty-five species are described and figured. New appear to 
be : — D. transvei'susy fig. 11, allied to D. scalpellum ] cm'tus, fig. 20, allied to 
D. cayennensis j angustatus, fig. 44 j and inconspicuus, fig. 117. No localities 
are given. 
Donax euglypius and splendens, sp. n., Bunker, Novitat. Conchol. part 9, 
1865, pp. 78, 79, pi. 27. figs. T-4 and 5-8, Moluccas and Australia. — D. 
granomsy sp. n., Zelebor, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1866, p. 916, 
Amboina. — Donax cattaniana [-ws], sp. n., Brusina, Faun. Moll. Balmat. p. 42, 
Adriatic. 
Syndosmya strigilloides (Vaillant) = lactea (Bunker). Semper, Journ. 
Conch, xiv. p. 166. 
Venerid^e. 
Dosinia tenuiliratay suhdichotomay eeylanicay and regularisy sp. n., Bunker, 
Novitat. Conchol. part 9, 1865, pp. 80-82, pis. 80-82 j the three first from 
Ceylon ; of the last the locality is unknown. — -D.jloridanay sp. n., Conrad, Am. 
Journ. Conch, ii. p. 280, pi. 15. fig. 4, Florida Keys and Gulf of Mexico. 
Romer, Ed. Monographie der Mollusken-Gattung Venus y L. 
The fifth and sixth parts, pp. 43-58, pis. 13-18, were pub- 
lished in December 1866, containing 13 species of the group 
Callistey eleven of which are critically examined and beauti- 
fully figured : — 
C. chione (L.), pi. 13. fig. 1 ; maculata (L.), pi. 16. fig. 1 ; squolida (Sow.) 
z^hiradiata (Sow.) = (Menke), pi. 13. fig. 2 j aurantiaca (Sow.), pi. 14. 
fig. 1 ; guttatay sp. n., pi. 16. fig. 2; pannosa (Sow.)=7M^ea (Koch)=/)i<e//a 
(Carpenter), pi. 14. fig. 2 ; gigantea (Chemn.), pi. 15. fig. 1 j Jloridella (Gray) 
