BY JOHN BRAZIER. 115 



I have not seen this species further south of Sydney than Jervis 

 Bay, where I dredged specimens on October 31, 1874. The speci- 

 mens said to be obtained by Quoy and Gaimard at Port Western, 

 New Holland (now Victoria), may have been dredged by them. 

 I had not seen any species like it from Southern Australia until 

 quite recently, when two specimens were obtained from shell 

 debris by my friend Mr. Arnold U. Henn at Largs Bay, South 

 Australia, in November, 1891. 



I quote Mons. M. J. Poirier, from the Nouvelles Archives du 

 Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, p. 65: — "This species, of Quoy 

 and Gaimard, misunderstood by all authors, has nearly the same 

 geographical range as M. corrugatus, Sowerby, with which, besides, 

 it has many analogies. It has been remarked on the northern 

 coasts of Australia and in the Red Sea. It is represented by 

 twelve individuals coming from Port Western (the types of Quoy 

 and Gaimard, 1829), from Sydney (Coll. Dutailly), from New 

 Holland (M. J. Yerreaux, 1846), and from New Caledonia (M. 

 Deshayes, 1874). The M. australis, Quoy and G., not figured in 

 the atlas of the Voyage of the * Astrolabe,' has been lost in 

 forgetfulness by the various writers who have dealt with the 

 genus Murex. Tryon alone admits it, but without recognising its 

 affinities, and he places it among the group of Tribulus. An 

 examination of the types preserved in the collection of the 

 Museum"^ has shown me that this species is no other than that 

 described by Sowerby under the name of M. palmiferus. This 

 denomination being the latest ought then to pass into the syn- 

 onymy." 



The Rev. Boog Watson, in his Report on the Gasteropoda of 

 H.M.S. " Challenger," Zoology, Vol. xv. p. 155, appears to have 

 followed Mr. Tryon in lumping M. pahni/erus, Sowerby, = aus- 

 tralis, Quoy and G., with three distinct and well-known species, 

 namely, Murex corrugatus, Sowerby, Murex midtifrondosuSy 

 Sowerby, and Murex dilecius, A. Adams. 



The word Chicoreus is spelt in three different ways by three 

 authors, namely Chicoreus^ Montfort, 1810 ; Chichoreus, Tap- 

 parone-Canefri, 1874 ; Cichoreus^ E. v. Martens, 1880. 

 * Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 



