BY PROFESSOR RALPH TATE AND JOHN BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S. 561 



Spurious species of Melania. 



lirata, Menke, Moll. Nov. Holl., p. 9, 1843=ineerta. The name 

 is preoccupied by a species described by Benson. 



tetrica, Conrad, (1850); and Ann. Journ. Conch., Vol. 3, t. 1, f. 

 9, p. 80, (1866)=Tatei, Brazier. Dr. Gould described a 

 Figian species under that name in 1847, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. 



mitra, Eeeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 175. non Deshayes or Meuschen 

 vide Cybele not If. Australis, Eeeve, not M. Australis, Lea, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



Family PALUDINIDiE. 



Genus Paludina. 



Essingtonensis, Shuttleworth ; Frauenfeld, Zool. and B. Gess., 



Wien, 1862, p. 1162.— Port Essington, (N. Aust.) 

 australis, Reece, Icon. Con., t. 11, f. 71, 1863 "probably the 



foregoing" Iryon. — Victoria E. (N. Aust.) 

 suprafasciata, Tryon, Am. Jour. Conch., Vol. 2., p. 8, t. 2, f. 7, 



1866. — Tropical Australia. 

 Kingii, Adams 8f Angas, E.Z.S., 1863. — King's Bonds (C.A.) 

 Hanleyi, Frauenfeld, op. cit., p. 612. — Lower Murray Eiver. 

 "Waterhousei, Adams & Angas, P.Z.S., 1863. — Newcastle Waters 



(C.A.) 

 sublineata, Conrad, Proc. Acad. Sc. Philadelphia, 1850; id, Am. 



Journ. Con., Vol. 2, t. 1, f. 8, p. 79, 1866.— Eiver Darling. 

 polita, Martens, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1865 (non Frauenfeld 



1862) " probably is sublineata" Tryon. — Australia, 

 affinis, Martens, op. cit. — Australia. 

 Alisoni, Brazier, Proc. Linn. Sc, N.S.W., Vol. 3, p. 221, 1878. — 



Diamantina Eiver, Queensland. 



Spurious species of Paludina. 



acuta, Menke, (? non Ferrusac) name only. 

 buccinoides, Quoy & Gaimard, vide Ifydrobia buccinoides. 



