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for Melbourne, and dredged thence to Sydney. Several 

 species belonging to this class were thus listed for the Vic- 

 torian and New South Wales coasts, but none for South Aus- 

 tralia. My dredgings during the last few years off the shores 

 of South Australia have yielded seven species of Pteropods 

 belonging to three different genera. The shallowest water in 

 which they were taken was sixty-two fathoms. They were 

 found at all intermediate depths down to 300 fathoms, which 

 was the limit of my operations. No specimens were taken 

 alive, but only their glass-like shells. I am indebted to Mr. 

 C. Hedley, F.L.S., for their identification. "The Challenger 

 Reports, vols. xix. and xxiii." ; and "The Catalogue of Marine 

 Shells of Australia and Tasmania, pt. 2, Pteropoda, by John 

 Brazier, C.M.Z.S., F.L.S., Australian Museum, Sydney (Cata- 

 logue No. 15), 1892," will supply the synonymy of the species 

 and their habitat. 



Family LIMACINID^, Gray. 

 Genus Limacina, Cuvier. 

 L. inflata, D'Orbigny. 

 Atlanta inflata, d'Orbij^^ny, Voyage dans TAmeriqiie merid- 

 ionale, vol. v., p. 174, pi. xii., figs. 16, 19, 1836. 



Station. — 62 fathoms, N.W. of Cape Borda, several; 104 

 fathoms, S.W. of Neptune Islands, many. 



Family CAVOLINIID^, D'Orbigny. 

 Genus Cavolina, Abildgaard. 

 C. trispinosa, Lesueur. 

 Hyalcea trispinosa, Lesneiir, M.S., in de Blainville, Hvale, 

 Diet. d. Sci. Nat., vol. xxii., p. 82, 1821. 



Stations. — 90 fathoms, off Cape Jaffa, 5 examples, 300 

 fathoms 10 ; 100 fathoms off Beachport 1, 110 fathoms several, 

 150 fathoms 2 ; 104 fathoms off the Neptunes, many. 



C. tridentata, Forskal. 

 Anomia tridentata, Forskal, Descriptiones animaliiim quae in 

 itinere orientali observavit, p. 124, 1773. 



Stations. — Off Beachport, 110 fathoms, several broken, 

 150 fathoms, 2 broken; off Cape Jaffa, 130 and 300 fathoms, 

 at each one whole and a few broken ; off the Neptunes, 104 

 fathoms, 2. 



C. inflexa, Lesueur. 

 Hi/aUva inflexa, Lesueur, Memoire siir quelques amimaux mol- 

 lusqiies, etc., Noiiv. Bull. Soc. Philom., vol. iii., p. 285, pi. iii., 

 fig. 3, 1813. 



Station. — Oft' Neptunes, 104 fathoms, 1. 



