BY JOnN BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., ETC. 391 



At page 140 Tritonium Quoyi, Keeve, Port Denison. It is found 

 in St. Vincent's and Spencers' Gulfs, South Australia ; Tasmania 

 and Islands in Bass' Straits. 



I think that when foreign collectors visit Australia they should 

 keep true records of their species, with localities ; they appear 

 to know about as much of Australia as I do of the North or 

 South Pole. 



6. Carditjm forntcatum. 

 Cardiumfornicattm, Sowerby, Conchological Illustrations, fig. 50 

 Cardiiim fornieatiim, Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1840, p. 110. 

 Cardium foniicatum, Eeeve, Conch. Icon., 1845, pi. XX., species 

 110. 



Sab. Bourail, New Caledonia, deep water, (Coll. Lieut. 

 Heurtel). 



At the time I exhibited this specimen, some months ago, before 

 the Society, I considered that it was new to science, since then I 

 have gone to a great deal of trouble in reading up the descriptions 

 of the various species described by Mr. G. B. Sowerby in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1840, and the 

 very good figure given in his Conchological Illustrations and the 

 figure given in Mr. Lovell Peeves Conchologia Iconica. I give 

 Mr. Sowerby's own words when described: — "It is a very 

 beautiful shell, in some respects resembling C. medium, but not so 

 angular, and having the ribs ornamented by vaulted imbrications 

 in the centre, and very minute crenulations raised into points at 

 the sides, unfortunately we possess no information respecting the 

 locality. Peeve in 1842 does not know the locality, but says that 

 the chief peculiarity of this remarkable shell, which is at present 

 unique in the collection of Mr. H. Cuming, consists in the ribs 

 having a double pattern of sculpture, being surmounted with a 

 close set row of small vaulted scales, whilst the sides are minutely 

 crenulated." 





