BY J. BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., ETC. 631 



Proceedings of tlie Zoological Society of London, on the 4tli of 



May, 1880. 



3. VOLTJTA BeDNALLI. 



1878. — Voluta Bed7ialU, Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. "Wales, 

 Vol. III., p. 81, pi. Yiii., fig. 3. 



1880. — Voluta (Aidlca) lednalli, Angas. Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 418, 

 pi. xL, fig. 1. 



Sah. Port Darwin, North Coast of Australia. 



A very good uncoloured figure was given of this species when 

 first described by me. 



Mr. Angas, remarks on this species, ^' Mr. Brazier, of Sydney 

 has already bestowed on this beautiful shell the name of its 

 discoverer, Mr. W. T. Bednall ; and I have much pleasure in 

 retaining that name, and figuring it in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London." I do not think that Mr. Angas 

 had any option in the matter of retaining the name, when I had 

 described, figured, and named it in the published Proceedings of 

 this Society two years previously. 



On a new species of Regdcecus, from^Port Jackson, 

 By E. p. Kamsay, F.L.S., &c. 



Regal^cus jacksonensis, s^. nov. 

 [Plate XX.] 



The first five to seven spines of the dorsal fin detached, slender, 

 very small and hair-like ; they begin opposite the upper angle of the 

 gill-cover ; to opposite the vent are 75 rays, here they are longest 

 and about one-third the height of the body. Pectoral rays 14, the 

 first very small and short. Yentrals represented by a short, slender 

 tubercle on either side of a small triangular space opposite the 

 posterior base of the pectoral; pectorals small, falcate. The 



