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Hal. — New Holland (Philippi); Port Phillip, on the rocks 

 at low water (Jukes); St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia, and 

 Tasmania ( G. F. Angas) ; New Holland (Paetel) ; Port Western 

 (Quoy and Gaimard); Hobson's Bay, Victoria (B. C. Bossiter); 

 Port Sorell, Tasmania (C. i£. Beddome); Wallaroo, South Aus- 

 tralia (G. T. Bossiter, 1861); St. Vincent's Gulf, South Austra- 

 lia, on rocks at low water (Prof. Tate); St. Kilda Beach, Hob- 

 son's Bay, Victoria (J. H. Gatliff); Hobson's Bay, Victoria 

 (G. T. Bossiter, 1862); Brighton, Victoria (J. F. Bailey); 

 Blackman's Bay, Tasman's Peninsula, Port Davey, Swansea, 

 and Tamar Heads, Tasmania (W. F. Pettard); Cape of Good 

 Hope (Hanley, in Wood's Index Test., 2nd edition). 



5. Trochus (Diloma) Adelaide, Philippi, sp. 

 t # 1849. Trochus Adelaides, Philippi in Martini and Chein., 2nd 



edition, Kusters, p. 140, No. 168, pi. 24, fig. 1. 

 1851. Gibbula Adelaides, A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 186, No. 



22. 

 1854. Oxystele Adelaides, H. and A. Adams, G-enera of Recent 



Mollusca, vol. 1, p. 427. 

 1873. Oxystele Adelaides, Phil.; Paetel, Cat. der Conch.-Samm- 



lung, p. 74. 



1876. Biloma Australis. Tenison-Woods. Papers and Proc. 



Royal Society of Tasmania, p. 145. 



1877. Trochus (Diloma) australis, Tenison-Woods, Papers and 



Proc. Boyal Society of Tasmania. 

 1880. Trochus Adelaides, Phil. ; Kiener, Coq. Vive, Fischer ed. 



Trochus, p. 210. 

 1884. Biloma australis, Tenison-Woods ; Hutton, Proc. Linn. 



Society of N.S.W., vol. 9, p, 368. 

 Hah. — Rossiter Bay, Recherche Archipelago, Great Australian 

 Bight (Captain Thomas Bossiter, 1841); Rocks at low tide, 

 Great Australian Bight (Professor Tate); St. Vincent's Gulf, 

 South Australia (W. T. Bednall); Adelaide in New Holland 

 (Philippi); North coast of Tasmania (W. F. Pettard); Cape 

 Riche, King George's Sound (Brazier); Portland, Victoria (J. 

 H. Gatliff). 



I have the original specimens of this species, and many others 

 collected by my father-in-law, Captain Thomas Rossiter,in 1841. 

 The year that he saved Mr. John Eyre (now Sir John Eyre) from 

 starvation when on his ever-memorable trip overland from Ade- 

 laide to King George's Sound. Specimens I distributed some 

 years ago as Trochus Adelaides, Philippi, they being identified 

 by the late Messrs. Henry and Arthur Adams, but for some 

 unknown reason the Rev. Tenison-Woods re-describes it as 

 Trochus australis. I have seen it in collections named Trochus 

 odontis, Gray, var. specimens from St. Vincent's Gulf sent by Mr. 



