BY JOHN BRAZIER. HI 



1877. Turbo (SenectusJcircularis,'Ree\e; Tenison-Woods, Papers 

 and Proc. Royal Soc. Tasmania, p. 38. 



1885. Turbo circularis, Reeve; Sowerby, Thes. Conch. Vol. v. 



p. 203, sp. 42, pi. 4 ; Thes. pi. 496, fig. 37. 



1886. Turbo Gnmeri, Philippi ; Brazier, Transactions of the 



Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. ix. p. 125. 

 1888. Turbo circularis, Reeve; Pilsbry in Tryon's Manual of 

 Oonchology, Vol. x. p. 214, pi. 41, fig. 24. 



Hab. — Adelaide, New Holland (Gruner, Philippi); " " .? 



(Reeve); St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia (G. F. Angas) ; 

 Holdfast Bay (W. T. Bednall, Tale); King's Island, Bass Strait 

 (Tenison-Woods) ; Swan River, Australia (Sowerby). 



I pointed out in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia in 1886 that Turbo Grtmeri, Philippi, had two years' 

 priority over Reeve's Turbo circularis ; but in 1888 Mr. Pilsbiy 

 in Tryon's Manual informs the conchological world that there is 

 some uncertainty about which of the above names has priority for 

 this s})ecies. " The volume of the Conchylien Cabinet in which 

 Philippi's description occurs bears date 1846 ; but it was not 

 completed until after the publication of Reeve's monograph of 

 Turbo in the Iconica. Philippi begins to cite Reeve in his 

 synonymy on p. 69 of his work, so that from that point onward 

 we may be certain that his work appeared subsequent to Reeve's, 

 but whether his descrij)tion of T. Gruneri (p. 52 of the Conch. 

 Cab.) was actually published before Reeve's description I am 

 unable to decide. Brazier (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, ix. 

 p. 125) gives priority to Gruneri, 'Philippi in Zeitschrift fiir 

 Malak., p. 98.' The species was never published in the Zeit- 

 schrift." 



It seems very strange that Mr. Pilsbry should make the above 

 charge, when he quotes Turbo lamellosus, Philippi, in his index to 

 Tarbo (Vol. x. of Tryon's Manual), that species being described in 

 the Zeitschrift fiir Malakozoologie, p. 98, No. 7, 1846, just under 

 Turbo Grvneri, Philippi. 



I may mention that Turbo lamellosus, Phili|>pi, is not the Turbo 

 lamellosus, Broderip, which is the Ticrbo stamineus, Martyn. 



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