OBITUAEY : R. ETHERIDGE, JNR. 51 



Professor Edgworth David, in the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 

 January 9, rightly states of him that " the world has lost the man 

 who, in his special branch of science, was the foremost worker in 

 the Southern Hemisphere ". The same writer also refers to 

 Etheridge's notorious retiring disposition, ever avoiding social or 

 even scientific functions, but for which " his name would have been 

 a household word throughout Australia — he literally lived in his 

 work, and he died in it, according to his wish ". 



E. BuLLEN Newton. 



NOTE ON MARGIN ELLA GUTTULA, SOWERBY. 

 By, John Shirley, D.Sc. 

 Read 11th June, 1920. 

 In hi,s list of the Marine MoUusca of Queensland, Mr. Charles Hedley, 

 F.L.S., includes Marginella guttula, Reeve. ^ This is probably a 

 mistake for Marginella guttula, Sowerby. As has been shown by 

 Mr. J. R. Le B. Tomlin,^ Reeve's name lapses, and his shell is now 

 known as Marginella pericalles, Tomlin. It is a native of the West 

 Indies and Mr. Tomlin has received specimens collected in a Hving 

 state from Bermuda. It is therefore not likely to range from 

 Bermuda to Eastern Queensland. 



The following are my reasons for believing the shell of Mr. Hedley's 

 list to be Marginella guttula, Sowerby : — 



In January, 1911, 1 received from the late Mr. E. A. Smith, I.S.O., 

 a letter in which he determined a shell collected on Murray Island, 

 Torres Straits, as Marginella triplicata, Gaskoin.^ This name was 

 subsequently proved by Mr. E. A. Smith to be a synonym of 

 Marginella guttula, Sowerby.^ It is a curious little cowrie-shaped 

 shell, and the folds on the columella are very characteristic. 



In the paper to the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1909, 

 Mr. Hedley describes ^ and illustrates a new shell, Marginella anxia. 

 Of the illustrations, fig. 87 has all the characteristics of Marginella 

 guttula, Sowerby — the cowrie-like outline squared off at the broad 

 end, and the same peculiar triplicate folds. Comparisons of 

 specimens of Marginella guttula, Sowerby, and of Marginella anxia, 

 Hedley, will, I think, bear out these statements. 



Specimens of Marginella compressa, Reeve, also from Murray 

 Island, were named by Mr. E. A. Smith in the same letter. 



1 Proc. Austral. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. xil, 1909, p. 363, line 17. 



^ Proc. Malac. Soc, London vol. xii, 1916, p. 64. 



3 Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1849, p. 19. 



* Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., ix, 1910, p. 21. 



« Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, vol. xxxiv, pt. 3, p. 452, pi. xliii, figs. 86-7. 



