AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA. G3 



Murcx (Chicoreus) ferv/tus, IT. and A. Adams, Genera o£ Eeceut Mollusca, 

 Vol. T, Part Iir, p. 73, 1853, 1858 ; Kobelt, Catalog der Gattung Murex, 

 in Jabrb. d. deutsch. malak. Gesellscli., Vol. IV, p. 151, 1877 ; Tryon, 

 Manual of Conchology, Vol. II, p. 91, pi. 15, fig. 152, 1880; Poirier, 

 Eevision des Murex du Museuui, Xouvelles Archives du Museum 

 D'Histoire Naturellc, Deuxieme Seric, Tome A', p. 62, No. 83, 1882. 



Murex nubilus {^= territus, juu.), Sowcrby, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 428, 



pi. 49, fig. 4, 1859. 

 Murex nubilus, Sowerb^^, Thes. Coucii., Vol. IV, p. 7, Murex, pi. 9, fig. 71, 



1879. 

 Murex territus, Sowerb}'', Tbes. Concb., Vol. IV, p. 19, Murex, pi. 9, fig. 77, 



1879; E. A. Smith, "Alert" Collections, p. 45, No. 17, 1881. 



Hahitaf. — North Australia. (Lieutenant luce, E.N.) Wide Bay and 

 Port Curtis. (British Museum.) Between Home Islands and Cape 

 Grenville, North East Coast of Australia, now North Queensland, 20-30 

 fathoms, sandy-mud bottom, brought up on tbe tangles. (J. Brazier, 

 " Chevert" Expedition.) Port Molle, 15 fathoms, and Port Curtis, 0-11 

 fathoms. (Dr. R. W. Coppinger.) Port Curtis. (A.M.) 



This species was inadvertently omitted from my list of Muricidse collected 

 during the "Chevert" Expedition, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 New South "Wales, Vol. I, pp. 1G9, 172. And it is not found at Sydney, 

 Australia, as quoted by Mr. Tryon in his Manual of Conchology, Vol. II, 

 p. 91. 



PRYLLONOTUS, Swainson, 1840; MURICANTRUS, Swainson, 1840 ; 

 CUNTBONOTUS, Swainson, 1835.* 



Murex Stainforthi, Eeeve. 



Mui'ex Sfainforthi, Eeeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 104, 1842 ; Couch. Icon., 

 Vol. Ill, pi. 17, fig. G8, 1845 ; Sowerby, Thes. Conch., Vol. IV, p. 30, 

 Murex, pi. 16, fig. 158, 1879. 



Murex {Phyllonotus) SlainforfJii, IT. and A. Adams, Genera of Eecent 

 Mollusca, Vol. II, Part III, p. 74, 1853, 1858 ; Kohelt, Catalog der 

 Gattung Murex in Jabrb. d. deutsch. malak. Gesellsch., Vol. IV, 

 p. 158, 1877 ; Tryon, Manual of Conchology, Vol. II, p. 104, pi. 26, 

 fig. 237, 1880 ; Poirier, Eevision des Murex du Museum, Nouvelles 

 Archives du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, Deuxieme Serie, Tome V, 

 p. 83, No. 138, 1882. 



Murex (Bassia) Stainforihi, Bayle, 1880 in Fischer Manuel do Couchy- 

 liologie, Fascicule, VII, p. 641, 1884. 



* Tliis name had been previously given to a genus of Fishes in 1801. ' 



