BRAZIER : NOTES ON AUSTRALASIAN MOLLUSCA. j'g 



numbui- 36 are remarkable as coming from the Solomon 

 group." This species was described by Cox in the " Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. of London," in 187 1, p. 323, pi. xxxiv, fig. 3, from 

 a number of specimens said to have come from Treasury 

 Island. Cox's specimens were collected by Mr. Perry, who 

 was stationed at the Island of San Christoval, and in his 

 rounds through the group collecting trade obtained a large 

 quantity of the Bulimi at Contrariete Island ; this informa- 

 tion I received from him when at San Christoval in 1872, 

 having carried the same specimen that I had collected in 

 1865. As soon as I showed Perry the specimen he said it 

 is only found on the Island Ulaua, and from the informa- 

 tion I received from him, that he must have obtained the 

 specimens in 1869 or 1870 ; but, says he : — "Your life is 

 not safe there now [1872], through the kidnapping of the 

 natives by the so-called labour vessels." 



B. Sellers! Cox.— Guadalcanar Island, Solomon Islands. 



B. Kreffti Cox. — Florida Island, Solomon Islands. Some of 

 my original lot collected in 1872. 



B. Rossiteri Brazier. — Bonebondia, Nehone, north-west coast 

 of New Caledonia. 



B. Loyaltyensis Souverbie.^ — Mare, Loyalty Islands, near 

 New Caledonia. 



B. pyrostomus Pfr. = Partula sa/omonis Pfr. (a mis- 

 nomer). — Aneiteum, New Hebrides. Found under the 

 tufts of grass. Dr. Pfeiffer first described this species as a 

 Partula from the Solomon Islands in " Proc. Zool. Soc. of 

 London," 1852, p. 137, and in the "Proc." for the year 

 i860, p. 137, he re-describes the same shell for Mr. 

 Cuming as Bidiinus pyrostomus. I think that it is far 

 better to retain the last specific name for the species, as 

 it is only found in the New Hebrides, and not in any 

 island of the Solomon group. These are some of my 

 original specimens that I collected in 1865 in the mountain 

 ranges of the Island of Aneiteum, 



