MOLLUSCA. ’ 589 
Scmele incmgrua^ sp. n., Carpenter, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1866, 
p. 208, Santa Barbara and Catalina Island, California. 
Cumingia mouUnsii,B^. n., Polin, M(51^agrinicoles, p. 16, pi. 2. tigs. 12-16, on 
pearl-oysters from Panama. 
Venerida!. 
The important monograph of this family by Ed. Romer has 
made considerable progress, and is distinguished by the same 
scientific treatment of the subject, exact descriptions, sound 
criticism of synonyms and imperfectly described species, exact and 
beautiful figures, as the former parts. 
Venus cygnus (Lam. ?) = rugosa of Pliilippi’s first volume, and 
midUlamclla of the second, is found living in the Mediterranean, and to he 
distinguished from the fossil C. multilamella (Lam.) ; V. casina (L.) includes 
as young states V. rusterucci (V?iyY.')jdiscina (Lam.), vf'flexa (Montagu), and as a 
rather broad variety 7 ^. (l)esh.). 'Weinkaufi',i.pp. 107-109. — V.gradata 
(Desh.) distinguished from fasciata (Da QoQi^) = hrongniarti of Philippi, 
not of Payraudeau. Gonzalez Hidalgo, Journ. Conch, xv. p. 144, Mediter- 
ranean. 
Venus {Anaitis) (Beck), Bay de Castries, Mantchouria. Schrenck, 
1. c. p. 628. 
Venus, subgenus Cryptogramma (Morch) = Anomalocardia (Schumacher). 
The known species, twelve in number, are enumerated, with careful indica- 
tion of synonymy, locality, and important critical remarks, by E. Romer, 
Mai. Bliitt. xiv. pp. 20-28. 
Venus, subgenus Chione Murcia (Romer, 1867), is treated by 
the same author. The species are arranged thus : — 
1. Omphaloclathrum (Klein) ==Atitigona (Schumacher) : 62 species, among 
which V. puerpera (L.), relicidata (L.), dyscra (1 j.)= cancellata 
(Lam.), gnidia (Brod.), marica (L.), omta (Penn.). Mai. Blatt. xiv. 
pp. 28 - 62 . 
2. Leukoma (Romer) : 26 species, among which V. gramdata (Gmel.), 
histrionica (Sow.), grata (Say), conradi (Romer), new name for Con- 
rad’s Mysia tumida, California. 
3. Chamelcea ; 7 species, among which V, gallina (L.), 
4. Ventricola, nov. subgen. : 16 species, among which V. rugosa (Chemn.), 
verrucosa (L.), effossa (Bivona), pp. 92-126. 
Venus {Murcia) petitii (Desh.)=F. (Tapies) diversa (Sow.), from Yesso, 
Sachalin, Mantschuria. Schrenck, 1. c. p. 626. 
Chione lordi, sp. n., Baird, in Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver Island, ii. 
p. 865, Esquimalt Harbour. 
Psephts (see Record for 1866, p. 289) salmonea, sp. n.. Carpenter, Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1866, p. 209, Catalina Island, California. 
Venus [Gomphina) eequilatera (Sow.) == dona cina (Chemn.) —semicancellata 
(Koch) = Donax veneriformis (Lam.), from Hakodate. Schrenck, I, c, 
p. 633. 
Callisie chione (L.),macidata (L.), squalida (Sow.), aurantiaca (Sow. ),gidtata, 
sp. n., Romer, Monogr. p. 62, pi. 16. fig. ^,pannosa (Sow.), gigantea (Chemn.), 
Jloridella (Gray), umhonella (Lam.), impar (Jjzm.),f estiva (Sow. ),erycina(lj.), 
