BY J. BRAZIEE, CM Z.S. 121 



The CyprcBa figured by Eeeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 24, species 140, 

 is the Cijprosa scahriuscida, Gray. The same error occurs in 

 Sowerby's Conch. Illust. The true Ci/prcea nivea, Gray, 

 Zoological Journal, Vol. i., p. 511, 1824, is a white variety of 

 Cyprcca churnea, Barnes. Gray's shell was pierced with two holes, 

 and was supposed to have been worn by some savage islander. 

 Gaskoin, in Proc, Zool. Soc, p. 98, 1848, says that the specimen 

 before him is a white variety of Cyprcea turdus. Gray's descrip- 

 tion of 7iivea answers in every respect to ehurnea, Barnes. 

 Dr. Gray was a rather acute observer, and I don't think for one 

 moment he would call a Cyprcea turdiis an ehurnea, even if it was 

 a white variety. The Gyprcea nivea figured in Wood, Index 

 Test. Suppl., pi. 3, fig. 12, 1828, is Cyprcea lutea, Gronovius, 

 Humphrey ii, Gray. Oryza was dredged at Port Philip in five 

 fathoms by Mr, John Macgillivray, Naturalist to H.M.S. 

 '' Pattlesnake," in 1848, so it is a very old southern record. 



Notes on Bulimus Gunni. 



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



Professor W. J. Stephens handed to me some weeks ago a 

 fossil BuUmus from Kent's Group, Bass' Straits, found in the 

 Travertine of that Group. I have identified it with JBidinnis 

 Gunjii, described by G. B. Sowerby from a cast in Strelitzki's, 

 New South Wales and Van Diemens Land, p. 298, I notice that 

 Mr. Eobert, M. Johnson, Proc. Royal Soc, Tasmania, 1879, p. 

 90, mentions it being found in the Yellow Limestone, Hobart 

 Town ; he says, ''that he should infer that it is closely allied to 

 the existing species, B. Tasv^ianicusP The whorls are striated, 

 irregularly transversely, as in the existing species B. Tasmanicus, 

 Professor Stephens' specimen corresponds exactly with Mr. 

 Johnson's description ; the specimen I have before me has been 

 fractured twice before being fossilised ; in my opinion there 



