24 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, 



" Gray's surmise that Lijypistts might be a S3^nonym for his 

 Separatiata proves correct, and the former name having priority 

 stands, hence : — 



''LippiSTES, Montfort, 1810 [^ Separatista, Gra}', 1847]. 



"1. L. cornu (GmeL). Type [^Separatista Grayii, Ad., loc. cit.'] 



(5 carinse). 

 •* 2. L. seimratista (Dillwyn). Type of Separatista (3 carin^e) 

 \^ = Turho helicoides, Gmel., p. 3598. 

 = Turbo separatista, Dillwyn. 

 — Separatista chemnitzii, Ad.] 

 " There are, I fancy, more species, but these are for the moment 

 immaterial." 



In view of this information so kindly communicated by Mr. 

 AVoodward, it will be necessary to transfer the four Australian 

 species — S. separatista, S. gracileiita, S. torcu^aris, and >S'. gahrieli 

 — from Separatista to Lippistes. I have noted some remarks b}^ 

 Dall on Lippistes (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xviii., 1889, p. 386-7) 

 and Separatista (Bush, Trans. Connect. Acad, x., 1897, p. 105). 



On Perry's Australian Shells. 

 Perry's work is of particular importance to Australian natu- 

 ralists, because he had access to earty collections of Australian 

 shells, especially to that of Lieut. -Col. Wm. Paterson, who filled 

 the post of Lieut.-Governor of New South Wales in 1800-1802, 

 and corresponded* with Sir Joseph Banks. 



* Colonel Paterson deserves to be remembered as one of the earliest 

 Australian conchologists. He arrived in Sydney in 1790 as a captain in the 

 New South Wales Corps, with a high reputation as a traveller and naturalist, 

 having already published a work — * ' A Narrative of Four Journeys into the 

 Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777-8-9," dedicated to 

 Sir Joseph Banks. He had ample opportunities during two decades for 

 collecting in Australasia. Besides various journeys in New South Wales, he 

 commanded the settlement at Norfolk Island and founded that at Port 

 Dalrymple in Tasmania. An affluent of the Hunter Eiver is named in his 

 honour, and Robert Brown dedicated the genus Patersonia to him. He 

 appears to have corresponded with Lamarck, for two Australian shells are 

 acknowledged — Corbnla tailensis, from a M. Patersoon ; and Buccinum 

 hrasilkumm, from Madame Paterson. 



