BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 387 



1133. BrANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM, Pall. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes VIII., p. 513.— (Many synonyms.) 

 " The Amphioxus " and " The Lancelet" 

 Transparent, slightly iridescent. 



Dredged in Bass' Straits (H.M.S. Herald) and since in many 

 parts of the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. Length 

 three inches. 



On Menke's Australian Shells. 



By Ealpii Tate, Assoc. Linn. Soc, F.G-.S. ; Cor. Mem. Acad. 



Sc. Philadelphia, Eoy. Soc. Tasmania, &c, Professor 



in the University of Adelaide. 



Introductory Citation. 



"Menke's " Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae " is a very rare 

 work ; I have never seen but two copies in Australia. There 

 are none in any of our public libraries.* It would be a very 

 small expense ; but a great boon, to reprint it."— Eev. J. E. 

 Tenison- Woods, Eoy. Soc. N.S.W., Sept. 1878. 



And again " How difficult it would be to obtain Menke's Latin 

 pamphlet on the Mollusca of New Holland." — The same, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IV., p. 479, 1880. 



The above quoted work, which was published in 1843, is an 

 octavo of forty-six pages ; it contains a catalogue of two hundred 

 and sixty-three species of Australian, land, fresh-water, and 

 marine shells, the major part of which was collected in Western 

 Australia by Dr. J. A. L. Preiss, during the years 1838 to 1842. 



* A copy has since been added to the Library of the University of Adelaide, 

 and the Library of the Linnean Society. Mr. Brazier of Sydney has had a 

 copy in his Library uiauy years. 



