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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
genus Erycina (Lam.), as restored by R^cluz, cannot be adopted. Ibid. 
p. 180. 
Kellia mac-andrewi, sp. n., Fischer, Journ. Conch, xv. p. 194, pi. 9. fig. 1, 
Northern Spain and Gironde. 
[^Kellia] Eryoina Uocculta^ proxima^ and triangularis^ spp. nn., Folin, 
l^agrinicoles, pp. 21-24, pi. 3. figs. 8-16, on pearl-oysters from Panama. 
Montacuta. This genus is really distinct from Kellia, Weinkauff, i. p. 180. 
The Mediterranean species are M. hidentata, M. fei'ruginosa, and sulstriata, 
pp. 175-177. 
, Montacuta gouldi, sp. n., Thomson, Am. Joum. Conch, iii. p. 33, pi. 1. fig. 
15, New Bedford Harbour. 
' Leptonid^e. 
Lepton adamsi, sp. n., Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G7, p. 910, pi. 44. fig. 11, 
Port Jackson. — Lepton meromm, sp. n.. Carpenter, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. So. 
1866, p. 210, San Diego, California. 
. Pristiphora, g. n.. Carpenter, = Pristis of the same author, Brit. Assoc. 
1864 (preoccupied). Testa Tellimyce Adanisiorum similis j dentibus cardi- 
nalibus nullis : lateralibua utraque valva conspicuis, postice elongatis, antice 
curtioribus, cardinem versus transversim sulcatis j fossa cartilaginali inter eos 
sita. P. ohlonga, sp. n.. Carpenter, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1866, p. 210, 
San Diego, California. 
SoLENOMYIDiE. 
■ Solenomya togata (PoW) =^medit&i'ranea (Lam.), MediteiTanean. Wein- 
kauff, i. p. 183. 
AsTARTIDiE. 
Astarte striata (Leach), figured by Packard, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. 
pi. 7. fig. 1, Labrador. — A. Jluctuata, sp. n., Carpenter, Proc. Calif. Acad. 
Nat. Sc. 1866, p. 209, Catalina Island, California. 
. \^Qouldia’\ Circe minima (Mont.). There are two varieties in' the Mediter- 
ranean, a rather inequilateral, Venus cyrilli (Scacchi), and a rather flat and 
equilateral, the true minima j besides, there is a third form, more triangular, 
= V. triangularis (Mont.), in the British seas, but not yet known from the 
Mediterranean ; all three are linked to each other by intermediate specimens. 
' Weinkauff, Conchyl. i. p. 123. 
. Ch'assatella esquimalti, sp. n., Baird in Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver 
Island, vol. ii. p. 368, Esquimalt Harbour. 
Cardita sulcata (Brug.) not =antiquata (L.), C. trapezia (L. P, of most 
authors). C. calyculata (Ij.) very variable j some specimens ai’e so near to 
Adamson’s ajar, from West Africa, that the specific validity of this, as well 
as of C. variegata (Brug.) and C. suhaspera (Lam.), is doubtful. Weinkaufif) 
1. c. i. p. 157. 
Cyclocardia, g. n., T. A. Conrad. Bounded, equivalve, radiately costate, 
with a rough, epidermis ; hinge with two robust teeth in the left valve, di- 
>’ected obliquely hachivard, the posterior one elongated and slightly curved j 
anterior tooth of the right valve rudimentary ; pallial impression entire, 
3tructure of the valves less dense than in Cardita. Anterior muscular im- 
pressipn longer than in that genus. To this new genus are to be referred 
