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place Reeve's name physoides. Being buried in the text under B. 

 melo, I overlooked the name when consulting Menke's work. 



Menke considered physodes one of four varieties of melo, which he 

 collected and defined ; giving the following description : 



"a. Testa ovato-elliptica, rufa, in anfractu infimo vitta una vel 

 altera albida vel fusca, basi fascia nigra, huic fascia albida superius 

 adnata picta, spira mediocri. Long 9, lat 5 lin Bulimus physodes, 

 m. olim, in lit." (Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen, p. 7.) 



Menke's var. b. was probably typical melo ; c. and d. may have 

 been inflates. All were collected in October, 1840, in the Hay dis-. 

 trict. 



PLACOSTYLUS. 

 P. SHONGII (Less.). Page 22. 



I am informed by Mr. H. Suter that this name is incorrect, and 

 should stand hongii, as the chief for whom the species was called, 

 was named Hongi, not u Shongi." This information is valuable and 

 interesting from an historical standpoint ; but even those who cannot 

 endure halting Greek in nomenclature, would probably not insist 

 upon elegant and correct Maori, when it involves the alteration of a 

 specific name. 



P. FIBRATUS (Martyn). P. 39. 



The type locality of the original P. fibratus has been unknown, 

 and as its discovery is of importance in connection with the study of 

 the distribution of the varieties, I quote the following interesting ex- 

 tract from a letter received from Charles Hedley : 



"It may be worth mentioning what has escaped the notice of 

 Crosse and everybody else, that we can recover the exact original 

 locality of P. fibratus. At the time of Martyn's Universal Concholo- 

 gist, no Europeans except Cook's party had visited New Caledonia. 

 Therefore it was collected by them. Cook landed twice in New 

 Caledonia, firstly at Balade, secondly at a ' mere sandbank not ex- 

 ceeding three-fourths of a mile in circuit,' between the mainland and 

 the Isle of Pines. Vide voyage of the Adventure and Resolution II, 

 1779, p. 139, map opposite p. 24. This he called Botany Island ; 

 modern French charts the lie Amere. 



Now P. fibratus as you remark does not occur at all in the north, 

 and since Montrouzier lived for years at Balade itself we can confi- 



