84 Gatliff and Gabriel, Victorian Marine Mnllusca [y^^',*; 



Vict. Nal. 

 XXXI. 



Lasaea scalaris, Philippi. 

 1847. — Poronia scalaris, Philippi. Zeit. f. Malak., vol. iv., p. 72. 

 ICS47. — Poronia parreysi, PhilipjM. Id., p. J^. 

 1847. — Poronia piirpurata, PhilipiM. /</., j). 73. 

 1863. — Poronia australis, Souverhic. Jour, de Conch., vol. xi., 



p. 287, pi. 12, f. 8. 

 IQ02. — Lascea scalaris, Philippi. Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., 



vol. iv., p. 321. 

 1904. — Lascea rubra, Pritchaid and (iathff (not ot Montaf,'u), 



P.R.S. Vic, vol. xvii., n.s., p. 22b. 

 1913. — LascBa scalaris, Philippi. Suter, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 928. 



Obs. — The above species has been considered l)y many 

 writers to be conspecific with the European L. rubra ; but, 

 having received s])ecimens of the latter from Mons. Dautzenberg, 

 of Paris, and Mr. Jukes-Browne, of England, we are constrained 

 to consider it a distinct species. Our shell attains to much 

 greater dimensions, and in the adult specimens is usually 

 strongly concentrically ridged ; young forms found together 

 with these are generally smooth. L. scalaris is covered densely 

 with minute jiittings or punctures, a feature not discernible 

 on A. rubra. 



Cyamiomactra balaustina, Gould. 



iH()i. —Kellia balaustina, Gould. Boston Proc. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. viii., p. 33. 

 1908. — Cyamiomactra nitida, Hedley. P.L.S. X.S.W.. vol. 



xxxiii., p. 477, pi. 9, f. 19 and 20. 

 1913. — Cvamiomactra balaustina, Gould. Hedley, P.L.S. 



X.S.W., vol. xxxviii., p. 268. 

 Obs. — Mr. Hedley, in the " Memoirs of the Australian Museum," 

 1902, vol. iv., p. 321, placed Kellia balaustina, Gould, as a 

 synonym of Lascea scalaris, Phil. In the last reference given 

 al)<)ve, after seeing the type of Gould's sjiecies, he considers it 

 ;i valid one, and that his own C. nilida is absolutely the same. 



FisnFRiKS. — From time to time the Commonwealth Depart- 

 ment of 'i'rade and Customs has been pu])lisliing the zoological 

 results of the fishing exjieriments carried out l)y the s s. En- 

 deavour, under the direction of Mr. H. C. Dannevig. The parts 

 contain a varying number of pages, and are well illustrated. 

 Part I of vol. ii (January, 1914) contains a report of 62 pages 

 on Hydroida collected in the Great Australian Bight, by Mr. 

 \V. M. Bale, F.R.M.S., illustrated with seven plates. The 

 second ]iart, just issued, is devoted to are])ort on some molhisca, 

 by Mr. C, Hedley, of the Austialian Museum. Sydni-y. 



