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New Zealand faunistical literature. Spaniorinus is nearly akin to 
Solecardia Conrad {=Scintilla Deshayes) in shape, the long 
postpedal suture, the small anal siphon and the papillated mantie 
margins. But it differs essentially in its hinge, which entirely 
lacks lateral teeth and often, as in the present species, also the 
small cardinals (3a, 4b), which are present in other species of 
Spaniorinus. According to Cossmann & Peyrot (1911), the 
genus has a geological range from the Eocene to the Miocene 
epoch. 
Fam. Unionidae. 
Diplodon menziesi (Cray). 
North Island; Lake Takapuna, Auckland, at the shore, 25/12 
1914, 3 sps., 1. 73. 
Fam. Tellinidae. 
Tellina deltoidalis Lamarck. 
North Island: 10, 1 sp., 1. 20. — 17, 2 sps., 1. 29. — Napier, 
inner harbour, muddy sand, 29/1 1915, some sps., 1. 46. I re¬ 
dal e (1915) proposes a new name, liliana, for this species, which 
is said to be distinet from the Australian T. deltoidalis of Lamarck; 
but which are the differences? 
Tellina eugonia Suter. 
Off Bard Island, 35 fms, mud, 17/12 1914, 1 sp., 1. 29. 
Tellina huttoni Smith. 
North Island: 16, 1 valve, 1. 11.5. — 25, many sps., 1. 17. — 
South Island: 29, 1 sp., 1. 12.5. — Stewart Island: 32, 1 sp., 1. 10.5. 
Tellina disculus Deshayes. 
South Island: 29, 1 sp., 1. 25. 
Tellina glahvella Deshayes. 
Auckland Island: 42, many sps., 1. 12. 
