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Mueller, for he has not only corrected the errors of the Flora 

 Australiensis, Yol. III., p. 215, (in which specimens of E. crelra 

 and E. populifolia seem to have been associated with E. hicolor), 

 but he has also removed all doubt as to its identity by the accurate 

 figure which he has furnished of its flower and fruit fMucahjpt. 

 Decade 5.) 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Notes on a new variety of Selix Falmensis, by J. Brazier, 

 C.M.Z.S., &c. — Helix Falmensis, variety meridionalis. Shell very 

 thin, transparent, brownish yellow ; suture with a dark reddish 

 brown band about half a line broad on the two lower whorls ; 

 four upper having it continued in a fine thread spirally to the 

 apex ; periphery with seven or eight faint nearly obsolete chestnut 

 lines contiguous to the suture ; umbilicus encircled with dark 

 chestnut ; peristome thin, slightly reflected, internal edge dark 

 nearly black. Diam. maj. 20, min. 15, alt. 14 lines. Hah. Large 

 South Palm Island, North-east Australia (C. E. Beddome). This 

 very fine thin specimen was obtained by Mr. Beddome during a 

 short stay at the abovenamed Island in 1877, he also obtained the 

 typical form but larger than those I obtained on the Great North 

 Palm Island during the Chevert Expedition and described in 

 these Proceedings 1876, p. 105. Mr. Beddome also found one 

 specimen of Helix Mulgravensis, Braz., when described in the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 21, I gave as the habitat Mulgrave 

 Island, Torres Straits on the authority of a trader. The islands 

 in the Straits do not produce any of the banded HelicidcB, the only 

 large species of Helix on the islands in the Straits is^. semicastanea, 

 Pf., it is reddish-yeUow above, base deep chestnut. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited an unusually large Tick fRicinusJ, taken 

 on an Echidna Hijstrix ; also the shells referred to in his papers, 

 and some Fhyllotheca fossils from Kookwood. 



