496 LIST OF SPECIES OP POKCELLANA OR CYPR^A, 



DONATIONS. 



Meddelanden af Societas pro Pauna et Flora Fennica, 

 Mittheilungen aus der Zoologisclien Station zu Neapel, 1880. 



Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera, by Oapt. T. Broun. 



Mr. Brazier on behalf of J. H. Tbomson Esq., New Bedford, 

 Mass., presented tlie Society the following works, which, he 

 stated were of singular value to Australian Naturalists : Testacea 

 Nova Australiae, Morelet. Metz., 1857; and Molluscorum Novae 

 HoUandise specimen, Menke, Hanover, 1843. 



papers read. 



List of species of Porcellana or Oypr^a found in Moreton 



Bay, Queensland. 



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



I have been requested by numerous correspondents in New 

 South Wales and Queensland to publish in the Proceedings of 

 this Society a Catalogue of the species of Cijprma found in Moreton 

 Bay, as the Conchological Works on the subject published in 

 England and Europe are very seldom to be found in the library 

 of young beginners. Last year I wrote a paper on the Moreton 

 Bay species of Cypr(2a and it was published in the English Journal 

 of Conchology, Vol. II., p. 317, a work seen only by a few in these 

 Colonies. 



A few remarks on Moreton Bay may be of interest. It was on 

 the 17th of May, 1770, the celebrated circumnavigator. Captain 

 James Cook, dropped anchor from the bows of the good ship 

 '' Endeavour," in the waters of a large inlet on the eastern coast 

 of Australia, to which he gave the name of 'Moreton Bay,' in 

 honour of his patron the Earl of Moreton, the then President of 

 the Eoyal Society. The bay is an extensive sheet of water 

 separating Shadbroke and Moreton Islands from the mainland. 

 It is about forty miles long, north and south, and seventeen miles 

 broad. Stradbroke Island is thirty-three miles long, north and 



