452 MOLLUSCA FROM THE HOPE ISLANDS, N. QUEENSLAND, 



Also unrecorded for Australia is Cymatium pfeifferianiim 

 Keeve,"^ which I found on the beach at Dunk Island, soma 

 distance south. 



Cymbium flaMxMEUM Bolten. 



Cymhium flammeum Bolten, Mus. Bolt. (2), 1798, p. 15 1, for 

 Martini, Conch. Cab. iii. 1777, p.59, PI. Ixxiv., f.780. Voluta 

 diadema Lamarck, Ann. du Mus. xvii. 1811, p. 57. 



This shell is common along the whole coast of Queensland, and 

 has been reported from jMoreton Bay, Mast Head Island, Dunk 

 Island, Cape Grafton, Cape Bedford, Torres Strait, and the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria, under the names of Melo diadema Lamarck, M. 

 mucronatus Eroderip, M. broderipii Gray, Cymhium ducale 

 Lamarck, and C. georgince Gray. All these synonyms are pre- 

 ceded by Bolten's name, hitherto ignored. 



It was of considerable importance to the aboriginals, who ate 

 the animal, and used the shell for a canoe-bailer, for a cooking 

 utensil, for personal adornment, and for wommera-handles. The 

 following native names have been collected : niugan, Moretoii 

 Ba}', Tom Petrie; ping-ah, Dunk Island, Banfield; ji-gai, Cape 

 Grafton, Roth; dir-hai. Cape Bedford, Roth; edzera, Darnley 

 Island, Jukes; alup, Torres Strait, Haddon; and pe-ra, Batavia 

 River, Roth. 



An old worn shell, which I saw decorating a fence on Murray 

 Island, is 14| inches long, and 10 J broad. The egg-capsules are 

 described by Banfield. f 



In Shark Bay, Western Australia, the animal is infested by 

 Aspidogaster macdonaldi Monticelli.J 



Marginella anxia, n.sp. 



(Plate xliii., figs.86 87.) 



Shell small, broadly ovate, involute, a heavy and broad callus 

 spread over each end. Colour milk-white. Adult ijmooth and 



* Reeve, Conch. Icon, ii., Triton, 1844, Pl.iv., f.l4. 



t "The Confessions of a Beachcomber," 1908, p. 148. 



+ Macdonald, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool (2), i., 1879, p.2l0, Pl.xxxiv., f.1-5. 



