304 NOTlvS AND EXHIBITS. 



by Mr. D. J. Ad cock in his ' Hand-List of the Acquatic MoUusca 

 of South Australia' (|x 9, No. 357, 1893). On writing to my old 

 friend and correspondent Mr. W. T. Bednali, he informs me that 

 there is a small specimen in the South Australian Museum, dredged 

 in Spencer's Gulf. Mr. Bednali mentions having had a large 

 specimen by him for many years without knowing its name. 

 ' When a lad many years ago, in the " fifties," I dug it out of the 

 ground in Adelaide, close to where I was living. When I found 

 out what it was I thought it must have been brought from Tas- 

 mania ; but since it has been dredged in our waters th^re is just 

 a possibility it may have been cast ashore here — although I have 

 never seen a sign of it when collecting. Very curious I should 

 have come by it in this way. I remember I proceeded at once to 

 clean the outside off to make it look pretty, which I was sorry 

 for afterwards when I found out what a good shell I had got.' 



"The recorded localities for this rare shell up to date stand as 

 undermentioned : — 



" East coast of Tasmania (Dr. Milligan); Tasmania (Cuming); 

 Circular Head, north coast of Tasmania (Brazier) ; Rocky Cape, 

 near Circular Head (Miss Mary Lodder) ; Port Sorell, north coast 

 of Tasmania (Mrs. Dumhelton) ; Spencer's Gulf, South Australia 

 (Coll. South Anstralian Museum, W. T. Bednali) ; a few miles 

 N.E. of Troubridge Shoal, St. Vincent Gulf (one specimen dredged 

 hy Mr. E. H. Mathews, 1893). 



" The other recorded species is Astele midtigrana, described by 

 Dr. George Dunker in the Malakozoologische Blatter, Vol. xviii. 

 p. 169, No. 55, 1871, under the name of Ziziphinus midtigranus, 

 from St. Vincent, Novse Hollandite. 



"Some few years ago I received from Mr. Bednali a number of 

 South Australian shells to name for him, and in the lot I found 

 three specimens, with a note of the locality, 'beach specimens 

 obtained at the Semaphore by Mr. Forward, and a note from 

 Professor Tate, having dredged three immature specimens oif Port 

 Vincent, South Australia, 3 fathoms.' 



" Our New South Wales species, Astele scitida, A. Adams, is 

 found under stones at low water at AVatson's Bay, Vaucluse, Shark 



