OF NEW SOUTH WALES. -53 



Hab. Cape Grenville, North-east Australia, 20 fathoms, sandy- 

 mud bottom, two specimens found not in very good condition : 

 Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 15, 20, 30 fathoms, white sand 

 with coral aud broken shells ; the specimens both dead and 

 living ; Raine Island, on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef, 

 North Coast of Australia. (Lieutenant Ince). No. VI., or Eclipse 

 Island, North-east Australia, found on the beaches. (Brazier.) 



29. — Emarginula, sp. ? 



Hab. Bet Island, Torres Straits, 11 fathoms, dead specimen; 

 Cape York, North Australia, 8 fathoms, two dead specimens ; 

 Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms, mud bottom, one found. 



These specimens are very bad and sea- worn ; they may be only 

 the young state of Emarginula micans. 



30. — Emarginula, sp. ? 



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

 bottom, one specimen somewhat sea-worn ; comes near to Emar- 

 ginula dilecta. (A. Adams.) 



31. — SCUTUS CORRUGATUS. 



Parmophorus corrugatus, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1842, 

 p. 50. 



Sciitus corrugatus, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., Vol. 3, pi. 248, f. 4. 



Hab. Home Islands, off Cape Grenville, North-east Australia, 

 on the reefs under coral ; Cape Grenville, 25 fathoms, specimens 

 four lines long. 



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Description of a new species of Gerygone. 

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



Gerygone flavida, sp. nov. 



The whole of the upper surface, ear-coverts, and sides of the head, 

 brown, washed with greenish olive ; tail and wings of a slightly 

 darker brown, the outer webs of the quills washed with olive ; 

 the inner webs of the primaries very narrowly and the 

 secondaries, margined with white at the base ; a sub- terminal 



