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found on reefs, its home is deep water, and it is generally washed 

 on shore after light gales in countless hundreds, about the deep 

 bays of Port Jackson and Botany Bay. The B. australis, A. 

 Adams, is found on reefs, we obtained it at the Home Island, 

 Palm Island, North East Australia; Bet and Darnley Islands, 

 Torres Straits, Chevert Expedition. I quoted it as Bulla australis, 

 Quoy and Gaimard, in the Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., Vol. 1, p. 

 83, on the authority of the monograph of the Family Bullidse, by 

 Ml'. Arthur Adams, in Sowerby's Thes. Conch, Vol. 2, p. 576, No. 

 45, pi. 122, figs. 64, 65, 66. As it requires a new name it may be 

 called Bulla Adamsi, Brazier. 



lam under great obligation to Dr. George Bennett, F.L.S., for 

 his great kindness in lending me Dieffenbaoh's Work on New 

 Zealand, for reference (2); unfortunately it is a work that is not 

 to be found in the Australian Museum or the Free Public Library. 

 There is a copy of Yate's New Zealand in the Free Public Library, 

 and while writing this paper I secured in a second-hand book-shop 

 a very fine copy of the same work. 



4. BuLLiNA LINEATA. Gray. 



1825. Bulla lineata, Gray. Annals of Philosophy, new series, 

 Vol. 9, p. 408. 



1828. Bulla lineata, Br. Mus. "Wood in Supplement to the 

 Index Testaceologicus, p. 9, No. 1, pi. 3, fig. 1, Bulla. 



1850. Bulla lineata, Grag. Jay's Catalogue of Shells, 4th 

 edition, p. 113, No. 3,189. 



1854. Bulla (Bullina) lineata, Wood. A. Adams in Sowerby's 

 Thes. Conch., Vol. II., p. 563, No. 2, pi. 120, fig. 2. 



(•2) I have to thank my kinsman, Mr. R. C. Rossiter, of Noumea, New 

 Caledonia, for his liberal and generous action in presenting me with the 

 whole of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Astrolabe. 



