Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

MOLLirSCA.y716. Tapes malabarica.Chemnitz; Romer, Monog. Tapes, Novitat. Conch, p. 34, pi. 10.figs. 3-3 d.Hah. Port MoUe, 14 fms. {Coppinger); Malabar, Molucca andPhilippine Islands (Eomer).17. Tapes variegata.Soioerhj ; Romer, I. c. suprh, p. 78, pi. 27. figs. 2-2 e.Hah. Port Curtis, 7 fms. (Coppinger) ; Philippine Islands andJapan {Romer).18. Tapes araneosa.Venus araneosa, Philippi, Ahbild. vol. iii. p. 25, pi. 7. fig. 6.Tapes araneosa, Romeros Monoyr., Novitat, Conch, p, 53, pi. 19. fig. 1.Hah. Port Darwin, N.W. Australia, 8-12 fms.The locality of this species I believe has not hitherto been recorded.In the single specimen before me the umboncs are all butterminal, so that the anterior end is even more perpendicular thanas represented by Dr. Eomer's figures. T. deshayesii is not ujilikethis species as regards its general form ; but the anterior end ishardly so short, and the concentric sculpture decidedly coarser.Venus textrix, Chemnitz.19. Tapes (Textrix) textrix.Hah. Port Jackson (Coppinger).Two young examples of this well-known species are of a buff colour,mottled with bluish white at the umbones, and spotted with redbrownon the dorsal margins.20. Venerupis crenata.Lamarch; Delessert, Recueil, pi. o. fig. 2; Pfeifer, Con.- Cab. pi. 31.figs. 22, 23 Sowerhj, Conch, Icon. ; tig. 3; Reeve, Conch, Icon, fig. 5{as Cypricardia serrata).Hah.Port Jackson {Coppinger).21. Trapezium vellicatum, var.Cypricardia vellicata, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pi. 2. fig. 7.Hah. Port Darwin, 8-12 fms., bottom mud and sand {Coppinger):Philippine Islands {Ouming).The A^orth-Australian variety of this species is peculiar on accountof the absence of the coloured rays which distinguish the typicalform.