THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 55 



NOTE ON NEW NAME FOR A VICTORIAN 

 MARGINELLA. 



By G. B. Pritchard. 

 (Communicated by J. H. Gatliff.) 

 (Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 11th June, 1900.) 

 Margfnella tenisoni, G. B. Pritchard (nom. mut.) 



1877. Marginella (Cryptospird) cyprceoides, T. Woods (non 



Anton, 1839), Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., p. 122. 

 1883. Marginella {Glabella) cyprceoides, Tryon, Man. of 

 Conch., vol. v., p. 23. 

 Hah. — Sorrento (Ocean Beach), Shoreham Beach, Western 

 Port, Port Phillip, Portland. 



Observations. — The above specific name of the Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison Woods was preoccupied for a distinct species in the 

 above genus as early as 1839 by H. E. Anton. The work by the 

 latter author, entitled " Verzeichniss der Conchylien," appears 

 either to have been overlooked or ignored by subsequent writers, 

 and as I have a copy of the work and find the name on p. 99, 

 together with a description of the species, I have no choice but 

 to conform to the usual practice adopted in such cases, and 

 therefore change the name as above. 



Victorian Mollusca. — The following are the rarer species of 

 marine Mollusca obtained by Messrs. J. H. Gatliff and C. J. 

 Gabriel during a dredging excursion off Rhyll, Western Port Bay, 

 in April last, and exhibited at the May meeting of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club :— Murex angasi and 2 other species, Typhis 

 yatesi, Lotorium bassi and 4 other species, Fusus pyrulatus and 

 dunkeri, Mitra vincentiana and franciscana, Marginella halli and 

 4 other species, Ancilla oblonga and 2 other species, Columbella 

 filosa and 4 other species ; Cancellaria, 3 species ; Drillia quoyi, 

 gabrieli, semula ; Clathurella sexdentata, Raphitoma harrisoni, 

 Cithara cognata and compta, and other Pleurotomids ; Conus 

 rutilus, Cypraea angustata, varieties ; Natica beddomei and sub- 

 costata, and 3 other species ; Turritella acuta, Turbonilla fusca, 

 Liotia tasmanica, Zemira australis, Trichotropis gabrieli, Callis- 

 toma incertus ; a very fine Chiton, not yet identified ; Emarginula, 

 2 species ; Myodora ovata, Cardium pulchellum and cygnorum, 

 Trigonia dubia, Nucula grayii, Limatula bullata, and a number of 

 Pecten asperrimus with sponge adhering, upon removal of which 

 very fine varieties of colouration were disclosed. 



A Fungus new for Victoria. — Clathrella pusilla, Ed. Fischer. 

 Small, with slender rooting portion. Volva obovate, dirty white, 

 smooth, j4-% in. diameter. Receptacle bright salmon colour, 

 elongated, about 1 j4 in- high, consisting of vertical branches 

 united at the apex, transversely rugose, interstices elongated slits. 

 Spores minute, hyaline, embedded in greenish slime, elongated 



