BY C. HEDLEY. 303 



131, Hab. — ?, Pres. Mrs. T. Lombe Taylor." This is 8 mm. long, 

 and 4-5 broad. It agrees with the three t ran slue id a. 



The habitat is fixed by a series labelled "translucida Sowerby" 

 from J. Brazier, collected near the mouth of the Richmond River, 

 N. S. Wales. These are a little smaller than Reeve's type. Angas 

 had already reported M. translucida from Middle Harbour.* 



The synonymy of this species has been much abused by authors. 

 Weinkauff erroneously unites M. strangei Angas to M. translucida,\ 

 which is accepted by Tryon. In his turn, Try on considers M. volu- 

 tiformis to be a variety of M. turbinata Sowerby. Also that M. 

 pygmaea Sowerby is the same as M. translucida, in which he was 

 followed by Pritchard and Gatliff. 



Marginella attenuata Reeve. 



Volvaria secalina Philippi, Enum. Moll. Sicil., ii., 1844, p. 197, 

 PI. 27, fig. 19. 



Marginella nitida Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1844, p. 75 ; Zd.,Sower- 

 by, Thes. Conch, i., 1846, p. 389, PL 76, fig. 131. 



Marginella attenuata Reeve, Conch. Icon, xv., 1865, PI. xxii., fig. 

 116. 



Marginella paxillus Reeve, Conch. Icon, xv., 1865, PI. xxiv., fig. 

 133. 



In London, it was pointed out to me, by Mr. J. R. Le B. Tomlin, 

 that M. attenuata was founded on a Mediterranean shell, and that 

 the Australian and South African localities assigned to it are false. 

 Reeve's statement that Strange gathered M. attenuata at Sydney, 

 induced local collectors to try to fit some Port Jackson species, such 

 as M. translucida, to it. 



But Reeve's species was first described from Sicily by Philippi 

 as Volvaria secalina. A note on the under-side of the Museum tab- 

 let unites this to M. nitida Hinds. Again, M. paxillus Reeve is, 

 according to the type, identical. 



So Marginella attenuata, a weary record of the carelessness and 

 incapacity of Lovell Reeve, may now disappear from lists of the 

 Australian fauna. 



* Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 196. 

 f Weinkauff, Jahrb. Deut. malak, Gesell., vii., 1880, p.47- 



