THE LINGULIDA OF THE QUEENSLAND COAST. 
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By Proressor T. Harvey Jounston, M.A., D.Sc., 
C.M.Z.8., aNp Orto 8. HirscHFreLp, B.Sc., Biology 
Department, University, Brisbane. 
(Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 30th June, 
1919). 
Plates I and II and Text-figures 1-8). 
The following species of Lingula have been recorded 
from the Queensland Coast: LZ. anatina Lam. (ZL. rostrum 
Shaw), L. murphiana King, L. tumidula Reeve, L. exusta 
Reeve, L. hians Swainson, and L. hirundo Reeve, the first 
five named being reported from Moreton Bay and the last 
two from Port Curtis. Davidson in his list (1879, p. 402) 
mentioned only the second, third and fourth, while Thom- 
son (1918, p. 43) referred to all six. 
The genus is rarely found on the New South Wales 
Coast, only one species, L. hians, having been recorded from 
Port Jackson by Angas in 1867, and by Brazier (1879a, p. 
370 ; 18796, p. 402) as an extreme rarity, the latter author— 
a very keen and persistent collector—stating that he had 
found only one living specimen in Sydney Harbour during 
his 25 years’ experience collecting there. Mr. C. Hedley, 
who succeeded Mr. Brazier as Conchologist to the Australian 
Museum, Sydney, informed us recently that he had never 
collected Lingula in Sydney, the only specimen from New 
South Wales that he had seen being the solitary form 
obtained in 1866 by Brazier who determined it. 
