OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Y.—TURRICULA SCALARIFOEMIS, TEN.-WOODS -ITS 

 OCCURRENCE in NEW SOUTH WALES. 



On a recent visit to Gerringong, the Curator collected a number 

 of small dead shells from between tide marks on a sandy beach. 

 Among them I have detected a single, rather 

 worn example of Turricula scalar iformis, Ten. 

 Woods,* a species which has not been previously 

 recorded from this Colony, though observed in 

 South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. The 

 synonomy and bibliography of it has been 

 recently reviewed by Messrs. Pritchard and 

 Gatliff.t 



The more prominent ribbing and small size, 

 7 mm., incline the Gerringong specimen to the 

 variety named Mitra legrandi by Ten. Woods. For 

 the better recognition of this variety, I add an 

 enlarged drawing of an authentic Tasmanian 

 specimen kindly lent me by the Rev. H. D. Atkinson. 



CHARLES HEDLEY. 



Yl.—SCALA REVOLUTA, HEDLEY— ITS OCCURRENCE 



IX FIJI. 



In discussing the fauna of Funafuti, I took occasion to point 

 out that the high proportion (one-sixth) of novelties described 

 should be regarded rather as an indication of how little is known 

 of the Pacific fauna than of any native peculiarity. My antici- 

 pation that all the minute shells described as new from Funafuti 

 would ultimately be found in the western continental islands is 

 receiving more full and prompt confirmation than I could have 

 hoped for. 



Ccecum vertehrale has recently been discovered at Ouvea, 

 Loyalty Islands.! And I now have the pleasure of recording 

 Scala revoluta from Fiji. A specimen of the latter has been 

 received by the Trustees from Mr. Allan R. McCulloch, who 

 recognised the species in a parcel of sand from Suva. 



CHARLES HEDLEY. 



Yll.—FHYLLOTHECA and CINGULARIA. 

 In 1895, I described i^ a very peculiar plant from the Upper 

 Coal-Measures at Newcastle, that appeared in some measure to 

 unite the characters of the genera Pliyllotheca, Brong., and Cingu- 

 laria, Weiss. The stems (or branches), stem-discs, leaves and 

 leaf-sheaths, all presented the characteristic features of the former, 



* Ten.-Woods— Proc. Eoy. Soc. Tas., 1875 (1876), p. 140. 



t Pritchard and GatlifE— Proc. Eoy. Soc. Vic, xi., 2, 1899, p. 189. 



i Journ. of Conch., ix , 1899, p. 219. 



§ Eec. Geol. Survey N.S.W., iv., pt. 4, 189.5, p. 148. 



