OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 7 



Young Shell, ovately fusiform, light reddish or flesh colour, 

 having on the body whorl four nodules, the upper whorls with 

 three varices squamose, with two dark brown spots on each, 

 varice in front thickly squamose, aperture milk white, having at 

 the edge of the lip eight small denticulations. 



Length 36, breadth 23, alt. 17 lines. 



Hob. Port Darwin, North Australia. 



I have named it after its discoverer, Mr. William Bednall, of 

 South Australia, who collected it some eighteen months ago, at 

 the locality given above. 



Allied to Murex eurypteron, Reeve, and Murex expansus, 

 Sowerby, but differs from both in every respect. 



ZOOLOGY OP THE " CHEVERT." 

 By E. P. Ramsay, F. L. S. 



MAMMALS. 



Part I. 

 Sub Order CHIROPTERA. 



Family PTEROPID^E. 

 Sub Family PTEROPIN^E. 



FRUIT-EATING BATS. 



1. Pteropus conspicillatus, Gould, P.Z.S. 1849,^?. 109. 

 The Spectacled Kalong, id ; Mamm. Aust. III., pi. 29. , 



The collection contains a fine series of this beautiful species, 

 varying little in size or markings, the largest adults being 18| 

 inches in total length, the smallest 16| inches, the wing bones 

 respectively 7 inches and 6*2. The yellow collar on the upper 

 part of the back, the neck and the nape, is of a slightly deeper tint, 

 tinged with reddish in the central portion, and unctuous in the 

 males; the hair on this part is stiffer, rather pressed, and the 

 individual hairs wavy. The coloring of the orbits is more defined 

 and paler in some than in others. 



Localities : Rockingham Bay, Queensland ; and Yule Island, 

 New Guinea. 



