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, LiMN^A BRAZiERi, Smith. — Dr. Cox wrote : — " This is a species 

 of very rare occurrence. I have got a single specimen near 

 Sydney, and afterwards from one other locality of New South 

 Wales." I found this species to be very plentiful on watercress 

 in a little stream emanating from a mineral spring by the roadside 

 near Yandoit. I have also taken what appears to be the same 

 shell at Expedition Pass, in a dam near Castlemaine, and in a dam 

 near Chewton. Castlemaine, therefore, appears to be its home. 

 It does not appear to attain any size. The largest specimens I 

 have taken were at Yandoit, and measure little over ^ of an 

 inch. 



Amphipeplea papyracea, Tate, originally described in 

 " Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., " vol. iii., p. T03, pi. iv., fig. 5, as 

 Limnea papyracea, which name was changed to the above iii 

 the "Proc. Roy. Soc. of Tasmania, 1884," p. 216. It has beeii 

 previously recorded from Victoria by the late Mr. J. F. Bailey, 

 who collected it at Merrigura. I have only taken this shell once, 

 in a rain water dam off the Daylesford road, about twelve miles 

 from Castlemaine. This dam was partly dried up when I visited 

 it, but I found a quantity of dead shells and a few live ones of 

 this species in it. The largest specimen I took measured -^^ of 

 an inch. 



BuLiNUS TENUiSTRiATUs, Tate. — This is our commonest shell, 

 and is found everywhere. Expedition Pass, the little Yandoit 

 stream, the lake in our Botanical Gardens, a mining dam at 

 Fryerstown, several little streams and ponds at Harcourt, have all 

 yielded it in quantities. I have only one note to make about this 

 shell. The Yandoit specimens were covered, when first dried, 

 with a greenish coating. This, however, soon disappeared. The 

 Limnese from the same stream did not, as far as I observed, 

 exhibit the same peculiarity. The shell is light horn colour 

 and transparent in young specimens ; the adults are brown and 

 opaque. 



BuLiNUS PECTOROSUS, Conrad. — I have only taken this species 

 once, in a ditch called Limestone Creek, half-way between Guild- 

 ford and Yandoit. The shells are black. 



BuLiNUS ALiciiE, Reeve, var. cingulahis, Clessin. — I have 

 had a curious experience with this shell. Some months ago I 

 took a single specimen at Expedition Pass, but though I searched 

 often and diligently, could never come across another. When I 

 visited the rain water dam on the Daylesford road before men- 

 tioned, I found it full of them in all stages of growth. Within 

 the last few days I have taken three more at Expedition Pass. 

 The distance between the localities is 22 miles, and I have never 

 found the species anywhere else. It is a striking shell, the 

 whorls being coronated, and it seems to vary a good deal in 

 shape. This form was described from South Australia (as a 



