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he is found re-naming species of Linnyeus, such as Cyprcea mappa, 

 some of which should have been well known to a conchologist, 

 perhaps it is only to be expected of human nature that his work 

 should be treated by some of his successors in a similar manner. 

 In his figures giving a side view of the shell of Cyprgea, for 

 instance, he has also attempted to give a partial delineation of 

 the base, which, until his aim is understood, gives a most 

 erroneous impression of its natural appearance ; and his extremely 

 meagre and unscientific description would be useless if he had 

 not figured the species. It therefore follows that when the 

 figures are past recognition the work is useless so far as it relates 

 to them ; but other figures are most excellent. 



I will now only briefly refer to some of the shells found in 

 Australian waters where his name for the species is entitled to 

 rank prior to the name which has hitherto been generally 

 accepted, thus : — 



Biplex australasia, pi. 4, ff. 2 and 4 = Lotorium (Argobuccinum) 

 leucostoma. Lam. 1822. 



Triplex frondosa, pi. 6, f. i. 



Triplex abortiva, pi. 6, f. 5. 



Triplex denudata, pi. 7, f. 2. 



These three represent merely varieties in form of one species — 

 viz., Murex australis, Quoy and Gaimard, 1833. Mr. Brazier, in 

 Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.W., vol. viii., p. 113, arrives at the same 

 conclusion respecting fig. i, pi. 6, but wrongly quotes it as T. 

 ponderosa ; and again in Part iii. Aust. Mus. Cat., No. 15, at 

 p. 60, he quotes it as T. pondosa. The name frondosus having 

 been already used by Lamarck in 1803 for a fossil Murex, Perry's 

 second name oi abortiva should become that of the species. 



Septa parkinsonia, pi. 14, f. i = Lotorium fusiformis, Kiener. 

 1842 (?). 



Septa rubicunda, pi. 14, f. 4 = Lotorium australis, Lam. 1839. 



Bulimus carinatus, pi. 30, f. i ; Bulimus eximms, pi. 30, f. 2. 

 Two varieties of the same shell and = Phasianotrochus rosea, 

 Lam. 1822. 



Pyrula undulata, pi. 54, f. i=Fusus pyrulatus, Reeve. 1847. 



Pyrula australasia, pi. 54, f. 4 = Fasciolaria coronata, Lam. 

 1822. 



Venus disjecta, pi. 58, f. 3 = Chione lamellata, Lam. 1818. 



P.S. — The foregoing paper was read on nth August. I have 

 since received the "Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales," 1902, part i, issued on 22nd August, containing 

 an article by Mr. C. Hedley, Conchologist, Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, entitled " Studies on Australian Mollusca," part 6, in 

 which he refers to the same work, and it is noticeable that his 

 conclusions, arrived at quite independently of mine, are, on the 

 points included in both papers, almost identical. — J. H. G. 



