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Volume 38, 1905
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Tellina angulata, Hutton (1885).

Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvii, 1885, p. 322; Pliocene Mollusca of N.Z., in Macleay Mem. Vol., 1903, p. 80, pl. ix., figs. 86, a, b.

Several valves of this shell were collected near Stewart Island, and two kindly given to me by Mr. A. Hamilton a good many years back. They are light-brown-coloured, but otherwise there is no difference between these recent valves and those from the Pliocene of Wanganui. There is a slight error

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to correct in Captain Hutton's diagnosis—viz., the posterior cardinal of the right valve, and the anterior cardinal of the left valve, are bifid, as will be seen from the figure of the left valve (fig. 86b).