BY JOHN BRAZIER. 117 



specimens from Hardwicke Bay, Spencer's Gulf (Mr. E. 11. 

 Mattheivs, 1892) ; east coast of Tasmania (Mr. W. Legrand) ; 

 north coast of Tasmania from Port Sorell to a few miles west of 

 the River Leven, specimens generally very much beach-worn 

 (Miss Mary Ladder, 1892). 



Some years ago I sent home a specimen of this shell that 

 I had received from Mr. Bednall to my respected friend Mr. 

 Henry Adams to know if it was identical with his brother's 

 species Murex scalaris. I had already made it out as such from 

 the description given in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society* 

 of London, 1853, p. 71. He duly returned the specimen and 

 stated that it was " identical with the Murex scalaris, A. Adams 

 (not of Brocchi), in Museum Cuming ; the Murex scalaris of my 

 brother requires a new name, and if you are working up the 

 genus at any time pray give it a new name." 



In 1873 Mr. W. Legrand sent me a beach- worn specimen with 

 the liree worn off, and on that account I laid it aside and did 

 not take any further notice of it ; and on my leaving Sydney for 

 New Guinea in 1875 the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods described it 

 in a paper read before the Royal Society of Tasmania, November, 

 1875, from specimens collected by Mr. Legrand. There is not the 

 slightest connection between Murex octogonus, Quoy and G., and 

 Murex umhilicatus, Tenison-Woods ; the former is a large shell 

 with very fine lira3 between the longitudinal lirate ribs, the latter 

 is a much thicker and smaller shell with a large umbilicus mar- 

 gined with rounded imbricated scales. 



Swainson in 1835 defined a subgenus of the Muricidse under 

 the name of Centronotus, but he re-named it Phyllonotus and 

 Muricanthus (1840) ; the former name Centronotus had been 

 previously given to a genus of fishes in 1801 by Bloch, Schn. ; 

 Lacepede, 1802. 



6. Murex (Ocinebra) Brazieri, Angas. 



1877. Murex Brazieri, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 171, pi. 26, 

 fig. 3; p. 179, No. 12. 



