390 SYNONYMY ETC. OF SOME SHELLS, 



Mr. J. D. E. Schmeltz in the Godeflroy Catalogue mentions 

 Sydney as another locality. The collectors sent out to Australia 

 by the great German firm Messrs. Godeffroy & Son, may have 

 bought specimens in the shell shops about Sydney, but that 

 does not show that they inhabit the waters of Port Jackson ; it 

 is like buying Voluta fusiformis in London and saying that it was 

 found in the River Thames. I can positively assert that P. striata 

 never was found either in the Harbour of Port Jackson or any 

 part of the coast of New South Wales living or dead ; after 25 

 years of hard conchological work wading and dredging I can give 

 an opinion on the subject. 



In the same Catalogue V., page 181 the author gives Lingula 

 anatina, Lam., Sidney (Sydney); this is another shell-shop species, 

 the only species found in Port Jackson is Lingula Mans, Swainson, 

 and very rare ; I found one living specimen in twenty-five years. 

 Lingula anatina is found rather common in mud flats at Moreton 

 Bay and New Caledonia. 



We also find at page 173 Trigonia Lamar clcii, Gray ; Hafen 

 von Adelaide, Basstrasse, (Adelaide Harbour, Bass' Straits). 

 The metropolis of Trigonia Lamar clcii, which some recent writers 

 persist in calling pectinata, is Port Jackson and Bondi Bay Head, 

 four miles south of Sydney, in 25 fathoms. 



At page 154, Cominella costata, Quoy and Gaimard, PortMackay, 

 Sidney. This is not found either in Sydney, or Port Jackson, 

 or Port Mackay, Queensland ; it is confined to King George's 

 Sound, South Australia and northern parts of Tasmania and 

 Islands in Bass' Straits. Another species Cominella alveolata, Kien, 

 is found in great numbers under stones at Jervis Bay, 70 miles 

 south of Port Jackson. 



At page 148, Haliotis iris, Martyn, Yiti Inseln, (Yiti or Fiji 

 Islands). This well-known species is only found at New Zealand 

 and Chatham Islands. 



