6C0 ON SOME RECENTLY REDESCRIBED AUSTRALIAN SHELLS, 



nuove dell' Isola Maurizie, T. Canefri, 1877. — Museum Pauluc- 

 cianum, Etudes Malocologiques, T, Canefri, 1879, from Mr. 

 Brazier. 



papers read. 



Remarks on some recently redescribed Australian Shells. 



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



1. Alexia merldionalis. 



1877. — Auricula f Alexia J meridionalis, Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 New South. Wales, Vol. II., p. 26. 



1878. — Alexia meridionalis^ Angas, (Brazier, MSS.) Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, p. 869. 



Sal. Port Adelaide Creek, South AustraKa. 



This species was fully described by me at the time I received it 

 in 1877 from Mr. Bednall, therefore I never gave it a MS. name. 



2. MuREx (Pteronotus) Bednalli. 



1877. — Murex f Pteronotus J Bednalli, Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 New South Wales, Vol. II., p. 6. 

 1880.— Tryon, Manual of Oonchology, Vol. II., p. 262. 



1880. — Murex (Pteronotus) lednalli, Angas, Proc. Zool., p. 418, 

 pi. xl., fig. 2. 



Sab. Port Darwin, North Coast of Australia. 



Mr. Angas remarks on this species '' discovered by Mr. Bednall 

 and provisionally named by Mr. Brazier, which I have great 

 pleasure in figuring in the Society's Proceedings." 



What Mr. Angas means by saying that this sx3ecies was pro- 

 visionally named by me I am at a loss to conjecture. The species 

 was named by me Bednalli, and fully described in the Proceedings 

 of this Society on the 29th January, 1877, and Mr. Angas has 

 the coolness to redescribe it without acknowledgement, in the 



