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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATUllK. 
Hiatula nitensy sp. n., Tryon, Am. Journ. Conch, v. p. 171, pi. IG. fig. 9, 
New Zealand. 
Sanguinolaria robertsi, sp. n., Tryon, /. c. fig. 8, Philippines. 
Tellina. Notes on the structure of the shell with reference to the oblique 
burrows made by these mollusks, by W. von Vest, Verhandl. Siebenbiirg. 
Verein. f. Naturwiss. xvii. 1806, pp. 29-31. 
Tellina. Plates 65-58, containing species 323-345, and concluding the 
monograph of this genus, are published by Sowerby in Reeve’s ‘ Conchologia 
Iconicaj’ among them the following are new: — T. 6raz^m, fig. 323, Port 
Jackson ; shanghaensis, fig. 324, Shanghai ; crassiplicatay fig. 332, Sandwich 
Islands ; semiinflata, fig. 334, politissimay fig. 340, amphidesmoidesy fig. 341, 
lenticularisy fig. 342, Japan. Others have been previously described by Des- 
hayes, but are here figured for the first time. 
Tellina {Macoma) arsino'ensis and ergthrce.ay spp. nn., Issel, Malacol. mar. 
rosso, p. 69, pi. 1. figs. 3 & 4, Suez. 
Tellina (Tellinula) fragillimay sp. n., Issel, 1. c. p. 60, pi. 6. fig. 6, Red Sea. 
Donax hellardiiy sp. n., Tapparone-Canefri, Atti Soc. Ital. Scienze Nat. 
xii. p. 371, Spezia and Chioggia. 
Donax laskeyi (Montagu, as Tellina) is a distinct European species j D. 
brevis (Requien) is the young of D. trunculus (L.). Petit, Catal. Moll. Eur. 
p. 248. 
Iphigcnia (Schumacher). A monograph of this genus has boon published 
by Ed. Romor, in which ho distinguishoa and doscribos tho following 
species : — lavigata (Ohomn.), Guinea; brasilicnsis (Lam.), with var. I. media 
(Shuttl.), Brazil and West Indies ; altior (Sow.), west coast of America 
from tho Gulf of California to Tumbez in Northern Peru ; and 1. rostrata, 
sp.n., Upper Guinea. Mai. Blatt. xvi. pp. 150-155. 
Galatea. Sowerby’s monograph of this genus in Reeve’s ^ Conchologia 
Iconica,’ published in September 1868, contains on six plates 16 species, of 
which the following are new : — G. biangidatUy pi. 6. fig. 12, and triangularisy 
pi. 6. fig. 15, localities unknown ; all species the locality of which is known 
are African. 
\^Scrobimlaria'\ Lavignon deshay esii and L. spp. nn., R^cluz, Act. 
Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxvii., Languedoc. 
Syndosmya (Recluz). Its generic distinctness from Scrobicularia (Schu- 
macher) is maintained by Petit, Cat. Moll. Eur. p. 248. 
Syndosmya subrostrata, sp. n., Issel, Malacol. mar. rosso, p. 64, pi. 1. fig. 1, 
Suez. 
Ervilia scaliolay sp. n., Issel, 1. c. p. 63, pi. 1. fig. 2, Suez. 
Veneuim. 
A list of 68 species of Veneridm occurring in the Japanese Seas is given by 
A. Adams, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. iii. pp. 229-236 ; most of them were 
observed there by himself. 
Dosinia gibbuy sp. n., A. Adams, 1. c. p. 234, Japan. 
Venus (subgenus Cytherea sectio Circe). C. scripta (lj.)y per sotiata (Desh.), 
rivularis (Born), pUcatina (Lam.), undatina (liain.), including as variety C. 
albida (Desh.), lenticularis (Desh.), corrugata (Chemn.) = rugifera (I.iam.), 
tumefacta (Sow.), crocea (Gray) = sugillata (Jonas), intermedia (Reeve), 
speaosay sp. n., Philippines, liratUy sp. n., China Sea, 10° N. lat. in 50 fathoms. 
