of new south wales. 801 



86. — Amphiperas brevis. 



Ovulum breve, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. 2, p. 469, pi. 101, 

 fig. 70, 71. 



Hah. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25, 30 fathoms, sanely 

 bottom ; Port Stephens, New South Wales (Brazier.) 



87. VOLVA VOLVA. 



Bulla volva, Linn. Gmel., p. 3422, No. 2. 



Ovula volva, Lam. Anim., Sans Vert, tome 7, p. 370. 



Ovulum. volva, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. 2, p. 482, pi. 99, 

 fig. 6, 7, 8. 



fiirostra volva, Chenu, Manuel de Conch., part 1, p. 273, fig. 1794. 



Hah. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 30 fathoms, sandy mud 

 bottom ; Port Stephens, New South Wales, living specimens 

 washed on shore after gales (Brazier). 



Notes on the Entomology of New Ireland. By William 

 Macleay, F.L.S. 



The annually increasing intercourse between Australia and the 

 Papuan and Polynesian regions has enabled us of late years to 

 make ourselves well acquainted with their zoological and botanical 

 productions. Englishmen have now succeeded in establishing 

 themselves as missionaries or traders in one or more of the islands 

 of almost every group from New Guinea on the West to the 

 Society Islands on the East. Our present predominating influence 

 in these seas should not, however, make us forget how much has 

 been done in the cause of science by other countries and in other 

 times. Until thirty years ago it was chiefly to France that the 

 world was indebted for what was then known of the geography 

 and natural history of the countries of the Pacific Ocean, 



