BY JOHN BRAZIER, CM.Z.S., &C. 87 



Island, N. E. Australia {Jukes ) Rockingham Bay, Queensland 

 {Brazier Eclipse ExpeditionlSll) ; Port Darwin and Port Essington 

 {E. Spalding) ; Cossack, N. W. Australia (/. F. Bailey) ; Ceram 

 {Hombron and Jacquinot) New Zealand "?? 1 (Cttmmg') Cardwell, 

 Rockingham Bay, Queensland {E. E. Beddome) ; West Australia 

 ( W. H, Hargraves Collection in the Australian Afuseuvi) ; East 

 Coast of Australia {Schmeltz.) 



This species was described by Dr. Gray in 1827, and re-described 

 and figured by Kiener in his Coquilles Vivantes, as Buccimtm 

 unicolorum, he also figures it as Bucciiium unicolor. A. Adams, 

 in 1851, in a list published in the proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society, of London, classes it as Nassa unicolor ; and in 1853, 

 Reeve, in his Monograph of the Genus Nassa, calls it .Nassa 

 unicolorata, and at the same time he calls a variety of it Nassa 

 rutilans, said to have come from New Zealand, on the authority of 

 the species maker, Mr. Hugh Cuming, who never visited New 

 Zealand. The species is confined to Torres' Straits. And in 

 1854, flombron and Jacquinot also re-dascribe it in the. Voyage 

 Au Pole Sud as Nassa unicolor ; they do not make any mention of 

 Kiener's name. In 1873, Paetel, in his Catalog der Conchylien, 

 Sammlung quotes N. unicolor, Kiener. Schmeltz, in Museum 

 Godeffroy Catalog V., 1874, quotes N. unicolor, Kiener. G. W. 

 Tryon, in his Manual of Conchology, 1882, quotes it as N. unico- 

 lorata, Kiener. Mr. E. A. Smith, in the Zoology of H.M.S. 

 Alert, 1884, quotes it as Nassa unicolor, Kiener. I have also 

 done the same in these proceedings, 1884, &^ Nassa unicolorata, 

 Kiener. Dr. Gray distinctly says that his specimens of N. livida 

 were presented to the British Museum by Captain P. P. King. 

 It is quite astonishing that Reeve never mentioned Gray's name, 

 as he had access to figure any species contained in the British 

 Museum. 



2. Strombus AusTRALis. Gray. 



1827. Stromhus Australis, Gray. In King's Narrative of a 

 Survey of the Coasts of Australia. Vol. 2. Appendix, p. 489, 

 No. 90. 



