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Hab. Cape York, North Australia, 11/athoms; mud bottom ; 

 Katow, South Coast of New Guinea, 5 fathoms. 



5G. — Mangelia hexagon alis. 



Pleurotoma hexagonalis. Reeve. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 118. 

 „ „ „ Conch. Icon., pi. 32, sp. 293. 



Hab. Bet and Darnley Islands, Torr es Straits, 1 2 to 20 fathoms ; 

 Katow, South Coast of New Guinea, 4 fathoms. 



Species of Pleurotomidse were also dredged at the undermen. 

 tioned localities, the greater part of them being dead and rather 

 sea-worn, also broken in the lip and otherwise destroyed. 

 From Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 45 species. 

 Bet ,, ,, ,, 5 ,, 



bue ,, ,, ,, i ,, 



York 1 



Cape Grenville, North East Australia, 5 species 

 Princess Charlotte Bay, North East~Australia, 3 species 

 Cape York, North Australia, 15 species 

 Katow, South Coast of New Guinea, 4G species 

 And out of that number, 75 species, there are only single speci- 

 mens ; it would be too hazardous to describe from single specimens. 



Description of a new species of Kangaroo, from New Guinea, by 

 E. Pierson Ramsay, F.L.S., &c, Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



Halmaturus crassipes. nov. sp. 



3—3 1—1 4—4 



In. p.m. m. 



1 — 1 1—1 4—4 



Young Female. — Fur stiff, harsh, and short ; general colour, 

 yellowish sandy-brown, deeper on the upper surface where, on the 

 back is it pencilled with black hairs most conspicuously on the 



