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Show 1881.] 'LIGHTNING'AND'PORCUPINE'EXPEDITIONS. 713 of spring tides" {Duprey). Inner margin notched or plain, irrespectively of size and apparent age. 6. ASTARTE PUSILLA, Forbes. (Plate LXL fig. 10.) A. pusilla, Forb. Br. Assoc. Rep. 1843 (1844), p. 192. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870: Atl. St. C. Sagres, 26, 36; Med. Adventure Bank. Distribution. iEgean, 70-112 fms. {Forbes), Palermo {Montero-sato), Tunisian coast, 50-100 fms. (Nares), east of Malta, 310 fms. (Spralt), 'Shearwater' Exp., 40-120 fms. Allied to A. parva (afterwards forbesii) of Searles W o o d from the Coralline Crag; but the concentric strise in that species are oblique. 7. ASTARTE DIGITARIA, Linne. Tellina digitaria, L.S.N, p. 1120. TVoodia digitaria, B. C. ii. p. 238 ; v. p. 179, pi. c. f. 6. ' Porcupine ' Exp. 1870 : Atl. St. Vigo B., 22, C. Sagres, 26-28a, 36, Tangier B., Gibraltar; Med. Algesiras B., 50, Benzert Road, Rasel Amoush, Adventure Bank. Distribution. Cornwall (valves) southwards to E. Mediterranean and Adriatic; 10-600 fms. Fossil. Upper Tertiaries : British Isles, Belgium, S.W. France, Italy. Post-tertiary: Calabria. I cannot separate the genus Woodia, of which this species is the type, from Astarte by any distinct character. The hinge and teeth are certainly the same; and the pallial and muscular scars agree. The present species varies in the comparative number of striae. Some of m y specimens are quite triangular. Single valves occurred in great abundance off Cape Sagres and in Benzert Road. 8. ASTARTE BIPARTITA, Philippi. Lucinal bipartita, Phil. En. Moll. Sic. i. p. 32, t. iii. f. 21. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870: Atl. St. C. Sagres, 26 ; Med. 50, Benzert Road, Adventure Bank. Distribution. Mediterranean and Adriatic ; 10-120 fms. Fossil. Upper Tertiaries : Italy, Rhodes. Post-tertiary : Calabria. A n exquisitely sculptured shell. CIRCE MINIMA, Montagu. Venus minima, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 121, t. 3. f. 3. Circe minima, B. C. ii. p. 322, pi. vi. f. 4 ; v. p. 183, pi. xxxvii. f. 6. 'Porcupine ' Exp. 1869 : St. Little Minch. 1870 : Atl. Vigo B., Setubal B., C. Sagres, 26, 30, 36, Tangier B. ; Med. Cartagena B., 50, Adventure Bank, off Rinaldo's Chair. Distribution. Bergen to E. Mediterranean, Adriatic, Madeira, Canaries; 4-205 fms. Fossil. Miocene: Vienna Basin, Transylvania, Switzerland, PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1881, No. XLVI. 46 |