THE NAUTILUS. 



Vor,. XVI. SEPTEMBER, 1902. No. 5. 



NOTES ON TASMANIAN AND WEST INDIAN CONCHOLOGY.* 



BY C. HEDLEY, F. L. S. 



The study of Tasmanian conchology has been facilitated by an 

 excellent catalogue published last year by the late Prof. Tate and 

 Mr. W. L. May in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales. Therein certain species ascribed to Tasmania by the 

 Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods were rejected from the fauna chiefly 

 because no later observer had taken them. Though apparently of 

 foreign origin, their exclusion could not be wholly justified until that 

 origin was ascertained. At the invitation of Messrs. A. Morton and 

 W. L. May I undertook their examination. From the result it 

 appears that five West Indian species were supplied to Tenison 

 Woods, which he erroneously described as Tasmanian, and as new 

 to science. They are : 



Pleurotoma weldiana, T. AVoods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 

 (1877), p. 137, identical with Drillia fucata, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 

 pi. xx, f. 169. 



Ethalia tasmanica, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 (1877), 

 p. 146, is the common West Indian Modulus modulus, Linne. 



Adeorbis picta, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 (1877), p. 

 146, is Chlorostoma fasciatum Born. Wood's type answers well to 

 fig. 2a of pi. 63 of Fischer's Monograph in the " Coquilles Vivantes." 



Astele turbinata, T. Woods. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 (1877), p. 

 145, is Chlorostoma scalare, Anton, another well-known West Indian 

 shell. 



Semele werburtoni, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 (1877), 

 p. 158, is Codakia orbicularis, Linne, a common Antillean species. 



* From the Proceedings Royal Society of Tasmania for 1902. 



