MOLLUSCA TRAWLED OFF MERIMBULA, NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. 



By J. Brazier, F.L.S., &c. 



The Australian Museum received last month from Mr. F. W. 

 Smithers, Inspector of N.S.W. Fisheries, a small collection of 

 shells trawled by him off Merimbula in 17 fathoms. The only 

 species of special interest is the Crassatella Kingicola, Lamk., 

 now for the first time recorded from the New South Wales 

 coast. 



Other things might have been obtained if some practical 

 scientists had been sent on behalf of the Museum to look after what 

 came to the surface, instead of its being discarded and thrown back 

 into the sea as rubbish, as is very often done by those who do not 

 know what they are doing. Appended is a list of the species 

 obtained. 



1. Cassis pyrum, Lamk. 



Cassis pyrum, Lamarck, A.nim. s. Yert. Vol. VII. part 1, 

 p. 226 ; Kiener, Coq. Viv. p. 39, pi. 13, fig. 25, pi. 15, fig. 30 ; 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon. Vol. V. pi. 11, fig. 29 b; Conch. Cab. 2nd 

 ed. Kuster, p. 29, pi. 47, figs. 5-6. 



The only specimen measures 2J inches long, and was the home 

 of an hermit crab, Clihanarius strigimamcs, White. 



2. Myochama anomioides, Stutchbury. 



Myochama anomioides, Stutchbury, Zool. Journal, Vol. V. p. 97, 

 Tab. Supp. 42, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 ^ Myochama anomioides, Hancock, 



