Ai:t. X. — Catalofjue of the Marine SJtells of Victoria. 



Part V. 

 By G. B. PRITCHARD and J. H. GATLTFF. 



[Read 14th November, 1901]. 



The present j^aper refers to one hundred and thirty two species 

 contained in the following families : — Cerithiidae (in part), 

 Planaxidae, Litiopidae, Littorinidae, Neritidae, Liotiidae, Cyclo- 

 streraatidae, Rissoidae, Turbinidae, and Trochidae. The previous 

 papers, Parts I. to IV., dealt with 287 species, so that, with this 

 part, the total number of species now dealt with amounts to 419, 



We would take this opportunity of drawing attention to a very 

 useful and valuable paper just published in the July number of 

 this year of the Pi'oceedings of the Malacological Society of 

 London by C. Davies tSherborn, F.Z.S., and B. B. Woodward, 

 F.L.S., on the dates of publication of Kiener's "Species General," 

 etc. We have long felt the want of this piece of work, and are 

 heartily thankful to the authors for then- labours. We think it 

 would also be a very good thing if the same reliable workers 

 could be persuaded to undertake a similar task for the different 

 parts of Philippi's Conchylien Cabinet. As an instance of the 

 trouble with this work we might indicate the genus Trochus, 

 which, in the bound copy in the Public Library, Melbourne, is 

 dated on the title page 1846, but some of the parts were 

 evidently later than this, as references are included for descrip- 

 tions in Zeits. f. Malak., 1848; again, in the case of Trochus 

 ochroleucus there is only the date of the title page as above 

 indicated, l)ut Tryon states the date as after LS53. It seems 

 pretty evident that the paper covers on the separate parts as 

 issued should have been bound up with the parts, in order to 

 preserve the dates of issue, and where this has not been done, 

 trouble has naturally arisen. 



For the range of many of our Victorian species along the New 

 South Wales coast, Mr. Hedley's valuable contributions entitled 



