592 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
NuCULIDiE. 
Leda lucida (Lov6n as Yoldia), North of Hebrides, Jeffreys, Brit. Conchol. 
V. p. 173, pi. 100. f. 1. 
Pectin iDiE. 
Pecten maximus. The manner of swimming described by P. Fischer, 
Journ. Conch, xvii. p, 121. 
Pecten japonicus (Gmel.), yessoensis (Jay), laqueatus (Sow.), crassicostatus 
(Sow.), and Icetus (Gould), described from Japanese specimens by Lischke, 
Moll. Jap. pp. 164-170; the second and the last figured on pi. 10. figs. 3, 4, 
and pi. 12. figs. 6, 7. 
Pecten sentis (Peeve) =P. pusio (L.) ; P. daucus (Reeve) doubtful, perhaps 
exotic ; P. bruei (Payr.), its identity witli aratus (Miill.) veiy uncertain ; P. 
dislocatm (Say), said to have been found on the coast of Portugal. Petit, 
Oatal. Moll. Eui*. p. 250. 
Pecten vitreus (Chemnitz), Shetland, Jeffi’eys, Brit. Conchol. v. p. 168, 
pi. 99. f. 6 ; the animals of several British species of Pecten described by the 
same, ibid. pp. 166, 167. 
Pecten ruschenberyerii, sp. n., Tryon, Am. Journ. Conch, v. p. 171, pi. 14. 
fig. 4, Bay of Muscat. Allied to P. asperrimus. 
Lima clUptica and subauriculata (Sow.). The living animal and its spinning 
described by Jeffreys, Brit. Conchol. v. p. 169. 
Lima bidlifera (Desh.)=sjwrtmosa, var., of Vaillant andSowerby, from the 
Red Sea; distinct from the European species. Issel, Malac. mar. ross. 
p. 101. 
Lima squatnosa. Specimens from Japan described by Lischke, Moll. Jap. 
pp. 162-164. The author assumes that this species is distributed through- 
out the tropical seas, and extends to the south coast of Japan and the south 
coast of Australia. 
Spondylus cruentus (Lischke), fully described by Lischke, 1. c. pp. 172-174, 
pi. 12. figs. 1-6, Nangasaki. Also Sp. sinensis (Sow.), ducalis (Chemn.), and 
zonalia (Lam.), from Japan. Lischke, ibid. p. 171. 
OsTREIDiE. 
Oatrea edidis. Some observations on its breeding and fry by Jeffreys, Brit. 
Conchol. V. p. 166. 
The culture of oysters, principally on the island Be Rd, in Western France^ 
and at Grado, in Dalmatia, is a subject of the little book by R. von Erko 
mentioned above. An account of the oyster-culture in South-western France 
will be found in P. Fischer’s Supplement to the Conchological Fauna of the 
Gironde, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxvii. 
Ostrea hippopua. Its differences from O. edidis are pointed out by E. 
Friedel, who thinks that the former is the original oyster of the shores of 
Schleswig, O. edulis being introduced. Mai. Blatt. xvi. pp. 62-65. 
Ostrea pauluccice^ sp. n., Crosse, Journ. Conch, xvii. p. 188, China. 
Ostrea denselameUosaj sp. n., Lischke, Mai. Blatt. xvi. p. 109, and Moll. 
Jap. p. 177, pi. 13 and pi. 14. fig. 1, Yeddo and Nangasaki ; O. rividaris 
(Gould), from Nangasaki, Lischke, ibid. p. 176, pi. 14. figs. 2, 3 ; O. yiyas 
