66 ON FOSSARINA PETTERDI, BRAZIER. 



DONATIONS. 



Description of some remains o£ the Grigantic Land Lizard 

 {Megalania prisca, Owen) of Australia, parts II. and III., by 

 Prof. Owen, C.B. 



From the Grovernment of Western Australia — Report on the 

 Forest Eesources of "Western Australia, by Baron Ferd. Von. 

 Mueller, K.C.M.Gr. ; Lecture on Injurious Insects, by Miss 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.M.S. 



From Prof. Ralph Tate, of Adelaide, South Australia, the 

 following papers : — On the Australian Tertiary Palliobranchs ; 

 Anniversary Address to the Royal Society of South Australia ; 

 the G-eology about Port Wakefield ; Supplement to a Census of 

 the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns, 18S1 ; on the 

 Greographical relations of the Pulmonif erus mollusca of Victoria ; 

 descriptions of some new species of South Australian Pulmonif era; 

 description of a new species of Belemnite. from the mesozoic 

 strata in Central Australia. 



From the Royal Microscopical Society — the Journal for 

 December, 1881. 



Southern Science Record, January, 1882, Vol. II., Xo. 1. 



papers read. 



Note on Fossarina petterdi. Brazier. 



By F. W. IIutton, Hon. Mem. Rot. Soc. Tas. 



Some time ago I received from Mr. Petterd, among other 

 Tasmanian shells, several specimens labelled Fossarina petterdi, 

 One of these contained the animal, and I extracted it and 

 examined its dentition with the view of comparing it with my 

 Fossarina varius. I found that the Tasmanian animal has a 

 multispiral horny operculum, and the characteristic dentition of 

 the TrochidcB much like Gantharidus. It is therefore not a 

 Fossarina (a genus made I believe by Adams and Angas for some 



