320 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Except in my catalogue of the marine mollusca of Queensland, 

 this species has not been reported as Australian. A specimen, 

 which I took at Mapoon, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, is inseparable 

 from a series from Singapore, kindly sent to me by Mr. J. R. Le 

 B. Tomlin. 



Dr. W. H. Dall remarks that C. duclosiana was proposed by 

 Sowerby for an Oriental species, and by D'Orbigny for an Ameri- 

 can species. Giving the date for the former as 1847, and for the 

 latter as 1845, he suggests that the Oriental species requires a new 

 name. Pace, however, has shown, that the Malayan dates from 

 1844 and that consequently it is D'Orbigny's name which is 

 latest.* 



Pyrene tayloriana Reeve. 



Buccinum parvulum Dunker, Zeitschr. f. malak., 1847, p. 64; 

 Id., Philippi, Abbild. Beschr., iii., 1849, p. 65, PI. ii., fig. 7 ; Not 

 Buccinum, parvulum Grateloup, 1833. 



Columbella tayloriana Reeve, Conch. Icon, xi., 1859, Columbella, 

 PL 35, fig. 225. 



C. albomaculata An gas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. Ill, PL 13, fig. 

 5; Id., Watson, Chall. Rep. Zool., xvi., 1886, p. 234. 



In the British Museum are two shells, marked type, labelled 

 "tayloriana Reeve, C.I. f. 225a, b. N.W. Australia. Pres. Mrs. T. 

 Lombe Taylor, 74/12/11." With these agree exactly nine, marked 

 type, "albomaculata, Angas, Port Jackson, Pres. G. F. Anga?, 

 70/10/26." In view of the close correspondence between these sets, 

 I judge that the locality of N.W. Australia is false, and that all 

 came from Sydney. Besides Gaskoin, the former owner of the 

 tayloriana types, has misreported some New South Wales Margi- 

 nella as from N.W. Australia. Watson's remarks on this species, 

 in the Challenger Report, seem to me to be quite erroneous. Dun- 

 ker, who obtained several unlocalised Sydney shells, has evidently 

 figured this as his B. parvulum, but as that was preoccupied, his 

 name has but an historical interest. 



* Dall, U.S. Fish Commission, Bulletin, 1901, p. 405; Pace, Proc. Malac. 

 Soc, v., 1902, p. 77. 



