1872.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN CASSIDID.E. 83/ 



numerous variations of colour of Coronella cana, specimens of a 

 uniform deep-black colour. These specimens are of large size, from 

 3 to 5 feet in length. On the occasion of naming such an example, 

 recently received by the Zoological Society from Robben Island, 

 ahout 5 feet long, and now living in the Gardens, I reexamined two 

 similar specimens in the British Museum, and was surprised to find 

 that they agreed with one another, and differed from the other 

 brown or blackish varieties, in having the scales in thirty-one rows, 

 the latter possessing only twenty-seven or twenty-nine series of 

 scales. It would appear that Levaillant also observed the same 

 variety in Robben Island (Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 157*). The 

 locality where the examples in the British Museum were obtained 

 is not known ; they, together with a young one, were presented 

 many years ago by the Royal College of Surgeons. The J'oung is 

 spotted as in other varieties, but has also thirty-one series of scales. 

 It seems to me that this variation deserves to be distinguished by 

 a specific name, because two characters (insignificant by themselves) 

 coincide in a form which appears to be localized in Robben Island. 

 I propose to designate it by the name of Coronella phocarum. 



6. A List of the Species of Cassididce found on the Coast 

 of New South Wales, together -with Remarks on their 

 Habitats and Distribution. By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., 

 M.R.S.N.S.W. 



[Keceived July 15, 1872.] 



1. Semicassis saburon. 



Cassis saburon, Adanson, Voy. en Senegal, pi. vii. fig. 8 ; Lam. 

 Anim. sans Vert, tome vii. p. 227 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pi. v. fig. 

 11 a, b. 



Cassis pila, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pi. ix. fig. 21. 



Cassidea saburon, Bruguiere. 



Buccinum saburon, Dillvvyn. 



Hab. Near the mouths of the Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellengen 

 and Redbank rivers, north of Port Jackson. Found also at New 

 Caledonia by Monsieur Perroquin ; on the coast of Spain, at Gijon, 

 by Mr. McAndrew ; Cadiz, by Monsieur Paz ; and at Minorca by 

 Monsieur Cardona. The shell described hy Reeve under the name 

 of C. pila appears to me to be only a variety of C. saburon. 



2. Semicassis (Phalium) areola. 

 Buccinum areola, Linnaeus. 



Cassis areola, Lam. Anim. sans Vert, tome vii. p. 222. 



Cassidea areola, Bruguiere. 



Cassis areola, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pi. ix. fig. 24. 



Hab. Broken Bay, Port Stephens, Port Macquarie ; and near the 



* I am unable to find the reference given by Soblegel in Levaillani's second 

 voyage. 



