RY JOHN BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., ETC. 401 



"Your No. 3., Megerlia pulchella, Sowerby. Is a species? with 

 which I am not fully satisfied, it may be distinct from Megerlia 

 sanguined, but most Naturalists seem to believe that it merges 

 into sanguinea and of which it may be a variety. I dare not yet 

 pass a positive opinion on the subject, and for the present the 

 name pulchella may be retained. 



Your No. 4., is Megerlia sanguinea. This is a beautiful small 

 species, it seems to occur in a good many places. Mr. Tenison- 

 "Woods sent me specimens of the shell from Bird Island, North 

 Australia. It abounds near the Island of Zebu. I am extremely 

 pleased to have it through your kindness from Lifou, Loyalty 

 Islands, it was also dredged by the Challenger Expedition from 

 Reefs Tamboanga, you have added several localities which I 

 shall duly record in your name in appendix to Challenger Report. 



"We come to No. 5., the last of the series, it is a Terebratidina, 

 one of that very variable and far spread genus, and of which too 

 many speecies have been created or proposed. Terebratulinas 

 were extensively dredged by the Challenger Expededition in 

 many places and many latitudes and often difficult to distinguish 

 one from the other. Your discovery of sj>ecimens of this genus 

 in Port Jackson waters is new, I believe, as I had never heard 

 or seen any from there before. I have been very pleased to see 

 specimens from there. Terebratidina cancellata was dredged, and 

 in great abundance by the Challenger Expedition, near the West 

 Australian Coast of Isle. The species of which I have 



seen and handled nearly a 100 of all ages, when full grown is a 

 large shell, but not the largest of the genus, as my Terebratidina 

 Wyvillei, from St. Thomas, is four times as large as Terebratidina 

 cancellata. Your two specimens may be referable to Terebratulina 

 cancellata, but are small (compared with full grown specimens of 

 shell), and seem to differ somewhat with examples of equal 

 dimensions, they are comparatively more convex, and are evidently 

 a marked variety of cancellata, if not a distinct species. I am 

 very pleased to have them. 



