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NOTES ON TASMANIAN CONCHOLOaY. 



Bj C. Hedley, P.L.S. 



(Eead Juue 10th, 1902.) 



(Issued June 17th, 1902.) 



(Plate.) 



The study of Tasmanian conchology has been facilitated 

 by an excellent catalogue published last year by the late 

 Prof. Tate and Mr. W. L. May in the Proceedings of the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales. Therein certain 

 species ascribed to Tasmania by the Rev. J. E. Tenison 

 Woods were rejected from the fauna chiefly because no later 

 observer had taken them. Though apparently of foreign 

 origin, their exclusion could not be wholly justified until 

 that origin was ascertained. At the invitation of Messrs. A. 

 Morfon and W. L. May I undertook their examination. 

 From the result it appears that five West Indian species were 

 snj^plied to Tenison Woods, which he erroneously described 

 as Tasmanian, and as new to s^.ience. They are : — 



Pletjrotoma. WELDIA.NA, T. Woods, Proc. Boy. Soc. Tas., 

 1876 (1877), p. 137, identical with Brillia fucata, Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. PL xx., f. 169. 



Ethalia. tasmanica, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 

 1876 (1877), p. 146, is the common West Indian Modulus 

 modiihis, Linne, 



Adeokbis picta, T, Woods, Proc. Eov, Soc. Tas., 1876 

 (1877), p. 146, is Chhrosfomafasciatiis. Born, Woods's type 

 answers well to fig. 2a of PL 63 of Fisher's Monograph m 

 the " Coquilles Vivantes." 



Astele tuebinata, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 

 (1877), p. 145, is Chlorostoma scalare, Anton, another well- 

 known West Indian shell. 



Semele wabbuetoni, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876 

 (1877), p. 158, is Codahia orhicularis, Linne; a common 

 Autillean species 



An examination of the type of Tarho cuciillata, Ten. 

 Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas , 1877 (1879), p. 121, shows it t ► 

 be T. zadiiitus, Gmelin ; a shell common to tropical Queens- 

 land. Another unrecorded synonym of this appears to be 

 T. pallidus, Perry, Conchology, 1811, PL 49, f. 5. 



Having inspected the type of Chione macleayna^ T. Woods, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1879, p. 38, I consider it identical with 

 G. stutchhuryij Gray ; a common New Zealand species, and 

 therefore probably not Tasmanian. 



Allportia expansa. Ten. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas., 

 1876 (1877), p. 28. At my request Miss Lodder sent me 

 some examples of this species. The material received cor- 



