444 SHELLS FROM SOLOMON ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIA, 



The height of the body is rather more than one-third of the 

 total length. Caudal fin sub truncate. Light brownish-olive (in 

 a dried state), body with brown spots, which are smaller than 

 the interspaces, and confluent on the back into short narrow 

 vermiculated streaks. 



Port Essington, Darnley Island (Chevert Exp.) 



311. Teuthis nebtjlosa, Quoy & Gaim. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes III., p. 321. 



The ''Blach Trevally'' of the Sydney Fishermen. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length. Caudal 

 fin deeply emarginate. Dorsal spines slender, the length of the 

 fourth is less than the distance of the snout from the posterior 

 margin of the orbit. Brown, irregularly marbled with darker. 



Sydney, Port Essington, North and East Coasts. 



312. Teuthis doliata, Cuv. & Yal. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes III., p. 323. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in 

 the total length. Orange-coloured, with about thirty vertical 

 bluish lines, the last of which are bent and run longitudinally 

 along the hinder part of the tail ; those above the pectoral fin 

 are oblique and those on the operculum reticulated. 



Fair Cape (Chevert Exp.) 



Notes on Shells from the Solomon Islands and Australia. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



1. Cypr^a sophije. 



Cyprcea sophice, Braz., Proc. Linn. Soc, 1875, Vol. L, p. 7. 



Hah. Makeira Harbour, San Christoval, Solomon Islands. 



