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West Australia, and the other from the Blue Mountains. The characteristics 

 of the genus are discussed, and the view put forward that, owing to the va- 

 riability of certain characters (as exhibited in the new species) which were 

 used by Brauer in the definition of the genus, the name Nannodythewis 

 must be suppressed, and the three species placed in the earlier genus Nanno- 

 phya Rambur. Otherwise the extraordinary result is that a bad generic de- 

 finition demands the inclusion of the male of the Blue Mountain species in, 

 and the exclusion of the female from the same genus. — 2) Studies on Austra- 

 lian Mollusca. Part X. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. A series of cotypes of rare 

 and figured Australian shells was lent to the writter by the British Museum. 

 With their help many difficult points in synonymy are now elucidated, and 

 drawings are presented of a dozen hitherto unfigured shells whose inadequate 

 descriptions have troubled systematists for more than half a century. The 

 National Museum of Washington had also kindly assisted by sending photo- 

 graph of unfigured shells gathered by W. Stimpson in Sydney Harbour 

 account 1855. Some revision of nomenclature has again resulted. The investi- 

 gation of eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature has resulted in 

 the restoration of several neglected but prior names. The early stages of some 

 local species are represented. Finally, a dozen new species, chiefly from 

 Sydney Harbour, distributed among the genera Oyamiomactra, Striglila, 

 Chione, Cuna, Eidima, Capidus, Mcmgelia, Odostomia, and Bissoa are de- 

 scribed as new. 



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