118 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Order SCORPIONID^. 



Family Pandinid^. 

 Subfamily Pandinini. 

 Genus Hormurus, TlioreU. 

 Uormurus karschii, L. Koch. 

 Hab. British New Guinea. 



Hormurus caudicula, L. Koch. 



Loc. St. Joseph's River (British New Guinea). 



Order OPILIONID^. 

 Suborder OPILIONES PLAGIOSTETHI. 



Genus Gagrella, Stol. 

 Gagrella hasselti, Thor. 



Hab. Fly River (British New Guinea). 



A REVIEW OF THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION of ZEMIRA, 



ADAMS. 



By Charles Hedley, Conchologist. 



The literary history of Zemira ausiralis has chiefly consisted of 

 a tossing from genus to genus without reason or explanation. 

 The type species was originally described and figured by G. B. 

 Sowerby, Junr.,* as Eburna ausiralis from New South Wales. 

 He adds that Dr. Gray considered it to be the Cancellaria spirata 

 of Lamarck. This view was upheld by Kienerf who reviewing 

 Eburna, states that E. ausiralis should remain among the Cancell- 

 aria, where Lamarck had placed it. DeshayesJ followed by accusing 

 Sowerby of publishing two names, figures and descriptions for one 

 shell, the first time by drawing it as a Cancellaria with three 

 twists on the columella, the second time as an Eburna with none. 

 Lamarck and his followers had however been deceived by a 



* Sowerby — The Conchological Illustrations, 1841, Pt. xx., Eburna, 

 fig. 5. 



t Kiener — Coquilles vivantes, n.d. Eburna, p. 2. 



i Deshayes — Lamarck's Nat. Hist. Anim. s. vert. (2nd ed.) x., 1844i, p. 

 231. 



