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description. Thus, not inaequalis, but greenwoodi, is the type of 

 Rhytida ; perlucidus should have been named as the type of 

 Hyalimax, not maillardi ; and as shown above exigua is misquoted 

 as the type of Goeliaxis, which was, is, and must remain, layardi. 



The bibliography of Ferrieria artstraUs, Forbes, 1852, may be 

 thus summarised : — 



Synonym. — exigua, Adams and Angas, 1867. 



Illustration s. — (Shell) Voyage of the Rattlesnake, pi. ii. 

 figs. 9a, 9b; P.Z.S. 1867, pi. xliii. tigs. 16, 17 ; Journ. de Conch. 

 Vol. XXXI. fig. 4; Monogr. Aust. L. Shells, pi. xii. figs. 16, 16a; 

 P.L.S.N.S.W. (2), Vol. VI. pi. XXI. figs. 4, 7 ; (Animal) loc. cit. 

 fig. 9 ; (Dentition), Journ. de Conch, xxxi. pi. in. figs. 5 & 6. 



Descriptions. — Voy. Rattlesnake, ii. p. 380 ; Mon. Hel. 

 Viv. III. p. 584 ; op cit. vi. p. 395 ; P.Z.S. 1867, p. 907 ; Monog. 

 Aust. L. Shells, p. 81 ; (Anatomy) Journ. de Conch, p. 101 ; 

 (Habits) P.L.S.N.S.W. (2) vi. pp. 559 and 570. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Habitats. — Not Solomon Islands (Adams and Angas) : but 

 Port Mackay (Turner), Port Molle (MacGillivray), Warro Station, 

 Port Curtis (Musson, Blackman), Cania (Musson), North Pine 

 River (Musson), and Caboolture (Wilde) ; all on the Queensland 

 coast. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Professor Haswell showed an inexpensive adaptation of the 

 simple microscope for the efiective exhibition in museum cases of 

 small objects requiring moderate magnification. 



Mr. Etheridge exhibited the fossils described in the papers by 

 Dr. Woodward and himself. 



