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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Macoma (Leach), the genus having been founded on the chai’acters of the 
shell.] 
Macoma yolcliformis and expansa, sp. n., Carpenter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 
Philad. 1865, pp. 54 & 55, Puget Sound. 
Gastrana japonica^ sp. n.. Martens, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 431. 
G£dalia, g. n., near Cooperella. Cardinal teeth 3 and 2, all bifid ; pallial 
sinus like that of Semele } ligament like that of Circe, (E, mhdiaphana^ 
sp. n., California. Carpenter, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 134. 
(Blainville). Carpenter proposes to retain this name for the 
section of Scrohicxdaria to which H. & A. Adams have given the name 
Capsa. Species; L. ephippium (Solander), L. alba (Conrad), L. dombeyi 
(Lam.), &c. Ibid. p. 133. 
Scrohicularia fahula, sp. n., Brusina, Verhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 
1865, p. 34, Paimatia. 
Scrohicidaria piperata Lister a compressa (Turt. ) = cowi- 
pressa (Boll) has been found in the river Warnow. Specimens from the 
Mediterranean are 32 niillims.*high and 44 millims. long [from the Adriatic, 
in the Berlin Museum, 37 millims. high and 50 millims. long], from Wangerow 
and Norderney 33-26 millims. high and 41-33 millims. long, from Warne- 
miinde 26 millims. high and 31 millims. long, from Greifswald 29-27 millims. 
high, 37-31 millims long, the specimens from the Baltic being generally 
smaller than those from the German Ocean. Arch. Ver. Freund. Ntrgesch. 
Mecklenb. 1864, p. 195. 
\^Syndosmya~\ Erycina iimiida^ hielzi, and trigona, sp. n., Brusina, Verhandl. 
zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1865, pp. 34 & 35, Dalmatia. [The last specific 
name preoccupied by Philippi.] S. strigilloides, sp. n., L. Vaillaut, Journ. 
Conch, xiii. p. 125, pi. 6. fig. 1, Suez. 
Thyella, g. n., near Semele [Amphides7na\ but without lateral teeth ; de- 
cussately sculptured. T. pulchruj sp. n., from Singapore. H. Adams, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. pp. 754 & 766. 
Cumingia deshayesiana^ sp. n., L. Vaillant, 1. c. p. 126, pi. 2. fig. 2, 
Suez. 
Mesodesma ohtusa (Crosse et Fischer) figured in Journ. Conch, xiii. pi. 11. 
fig. 4. 
VENERIDiE. 
Homer, Ed. Monographic der Mollusken-Gattung Venus. 
Casselj 4to, with coloured plates. 
Four parts have been published (pp. 1-49, pis. 1-12), each 
containing three beautiful coloured plates ; all bear on the title- 
page the date 1864. They contain the sections Tivela and Mere- 
trix of the subgenus Cytherea. All species known by the author 
from autopsy are figured and described ; of those which he could 
not examine himself the original descriptions are copied. We 
mention the following species as new : — 
Tirela naUdensis (Dunkor), pi. 4. fig. 3j I'ivcla dnnkcri, pi. 5. lig. 1, 
