BY W. L. MAY. 107 



decisions will ever be seriously questioned. They are as 

 follows : — Charles Hedley, conchologist. Australian Museum, 

 Sydney; Gr. B. Pritchard, Melbourne; Miss M. Lodder, Tas- 

 mania ; W. L. May, Tasmania. With the cordial consent of 

 the Curator, Mr. Alexander Morton, the work was taken in 

 hand. As a preliminary, I was able to state that to my 

 personal knowledge the collection, so iar as Woods's species 

 were concerned, had remained practically unaltered since his 

 time. 



All his species described before the publication of his 

 census are labelled with slips cut from that work, or in his 

 handwriting. Those described since are in his handwriting. 

 It therefore seemed to us all that it was sufficient evidence 

 that we were dealing with his type specimens if they were 

 labelled as described, particularly as the shells always agreed 

 with his description, and sometimes had some peculiarity 

 which further identified them. In some cases the author's 

 handwriting was on the card in addition to the printed 

 label, and there are some instances in which they are marked 

 as " type." An additional point in evidence was that Woods 

 described some half dozen exotic species received from Eonald 

 Gunn with the mistaken identification of their being Tas- 

 manian. There is but one specimen of each in the Museum, 

 and there is no doubt that they are the type, but they were not 

 so indicated with the other species, and labelled with slips 

 from the census. See also Woods's note at the end of his 

 paper *' On some Tasmanian trochidse." P.R.S., Tasmania, 

 1879, where he makes certain corrections of some names con- 

 tained in his census. He says, "I have to thank Mr. W. F. 

 Petterd and Mr. W. Legrand for having carefully gone over 

 the whole of the type specimens for me to assertain the above 

 corrections. The italics are mine. None of the species 

 referred to in this note were marked as type. We therefore 

 unanimously agreed to take the above indications as a guide, 

 and were able to definitely decide as to over 150 sjDecies, 

 which are now marked as type. 



The following is a full list of these types, with a few 

 remarks where necessary as to the condition of the specimen, 

 etc., or where some fresh facts have been ascertained which 

 it seemed well to place on record. I have thought best to 

 keep entirely to Woods's names a^ they were described. The 

 corrections of both generic and specific names will be found 

 in Tate and May's Census. I have also taken the oppor- 

 tunity to correct some errors in that work particularly affect- 

 ing these species, but where I consider they have correctly 

 treated the synonomy, and properly identified the species, I 

 shall not again refer to them. I have also prepared drawings 

 from the types of such species as have not yet been figured, 

 or but inaccurately or wrongly so, and they will appear as 



