PAPERS READ. 



NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY FOSSILS. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 Hon. Mem. Lin. Soc. of N. S. Wales. 



Last year Professor R. Tate sent a very fine collection of Tertiary 

 Australian fossils to the Canterbury Museum. After an examina- 

 tion of them I beg to offer the following notes which may be found 



useful : — 



Ancillaria hebera, Hutton. 



Quite similar to New Zealand specimens. 



Nassa Tatei, Tenison- Woods. 



This is the same as Nassa compta, Hutton (not of Adams), 

 afterwards N. socialis, Hutton. Woods' name will stand. 



Marginella hordeacea, Tate. 



This is, I think, the same as the Awamoa fossil that I considered 

 to be M. australis, Hinds. 



Terebra calenifera, Tate. 



The same as Gerithium bicorona, Hutton. Prof. Tate's name 

 has priority. 



SURCULA ATRACTOIDES, Tate. 



I think this is the same as my Pleurotoma Haastu 



Triton pseudospengleri, Tate. 



Is the same as T. minimus, Hutton. I think Prof. Tate's name 

 should stand as mine is not distinctive. 



