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Leda crassa, Hinds. VIE 
- Nucula crassa, Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1843, p. 99. 
Type locality, Australia; Leda crassa, Hinds, Sowerby, Thes. 
Conch., vol. iii., 1860, p. 120, pl. 228, f. 69; Sowerby, Conch. Icon., 
1871, vol. xviii., pl. 5, f. 27; Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 
p. 193; Ten. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1878, p. 32; E. 
A. Smith, Chall., Zool., 1885, xiii., p. 287; Tate, Trans. Roy. 
Soc. South Austr., 1887, ix., p. 102, No. 126; Tate & May, Proc. 
Linn, Soc. N.S. Wales, 1901, xxvi., pt. 3, p. 435; Hedley, Mem. 
Austr. Mus., 1902, iv., pt. 5, p.. 294; Pritchard & Gatliff, Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Vict.. 1904, xvii. (N.S.), pt. 1, p. 288. Leda chuva, 
Gray in Juke’s Voy. Fly., 1847, vol. ii., app. p. 356, pl. ii., f. 6; 
Sowerby, Thes. Conch., 1860, iii., p. 119, pl. 228, f. 67; Sowerby, 
Conch. Icon., 1871, xviii., pl. 7, f. 46. 
Dredged, Investigator Strait, 14 fathoms, 8 alive; off 
Middleton, 17 fathoms, many alive, adult; 18 miles off New- 
land Head, in 26 fathoms, 24 alive, mostly small, and great 
numbers of very small examples; off Beachport, in 110 and 
150 fathoms, 3 and 4 valves (Dr. Verco). 
Leda dohrni, Hanley. “ 
_ Leda dohrni, Hanley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, p. 242. 
Type locality, Mare Pacificum (Mus. Dohrn). Jd. Hedley, Thetis 
“xped., Memoirs Austr. Mus., iv., pt. 5, 1902, p. 294. Leda 
dohrnii, Hanley (A. Ad.), Sowerby, Conch Icon:, xviii., 1871, Leda, 
pl. Ix, f. 54. Leda hanleyi, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 174, 
pl. xx., f. 7; teste Hedley, loc. cit. 
Dredged off Beachport, in 110 fathoms, 6 valves; in 150 
fathoms, 10 valves; off Cape Jaffa, in 130 fathoms, 7 valves 
(Dr. Verco). 
Leda verconis, Tate. 
_ Leda verconis, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., 1891, 
Vol. xiv., p. 264, pl. xi., fig. 4. 
Dredged alive in Spencer’s Gulf, as far up as Wallaroo 
Bay, also in St. Vincent Gulf, in Investigator Strait, and 
ackstairs Passage. It occurs alive at all depths from 8 to 
22 fathoms, being very numerous at 8, at 15, and at 22 
fathoms. None were taken in the depths from 45 to 300 
fathoms. 
Leda pala, Hedley. v 
Leda pala, Hedley, Records Austr. Mus., vol. vi., part 5 
1907, p. 861, pl. Ixvi., fig. 1. Type locality, 800 fathoms FE. of 
Sydney. 
Dredged off Cape Jaffa, in 130 fathoms, 2 valves. 
Leda miliacea, Hedley. 7 
Leda miliacea, Hedley, Thetis Exped., Mem. Austr. Mus. iy., 
Pt. 5, i 295, fig. 48: valves, 68-75 fathoms off Port Kembla, and 
41-50 fathoms off Cape Three Points. 
Dredged in 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 5 valves (Dr. 
Verco). 

