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LIST OF MARINE SHELLS COLLECTED ON FITZROY 



ISLAND, NORTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA ; 



WITH NOTES ON THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE/^- 



By JOHN BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., 



Fellow of the Royal and Linnean Societies of A'eiv South Wales, Con: Mc7iu 

 Roy. Soc. Tasmania. 



The whole of these species were collected during a few 

 hours' stay in the year 1871, and only obtained on the west side. 

 The beach was composed of nothing but coral and shells, about 

 30 yards long, 6 to 7 feet in thickness, and the same in breadth. 

 During my second visit the whole of the bank had been washed 

 away by some heavy gale; the large flat blocks of coral con- 

 glomerate that were at the edge of ebb tide had also been carried 

 out into deep water, nothing left but a fine clear white sand beach. 



1. Pleurotoma bijubata Reeve. Conch. Icon., i., f 87 (very 



bad). 



One fine specimen obtained; I have also found it at 

 San Christoval, Solomon Islands ; Lifou, Loyalty Islands. 



2. Pleurotoma sp.? 



Dead and worn specimen of a light pink color. 



3. Ranella gyrinus. 



Miirex gyriniis, L. Gmel., p. 3531. 

 One specimen in good condition. Found on the reefs at 

 Darnley Island, Torres Straits; New Caledonia and Fiji Ids. 



4. R. granifera Lam. Enc. Me'th., pi.- ccccxiv., fig. 4. 



One fair specimen obtained. Some years back I obtained 

 a broken specimen washed on shore after a south-east gale 

 north of the Macleay River, New South Wales ; also on the 

 reefs at Aneiteum, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean. 



* List of Land Shells found on Fitzroy Island— see Qiiarteily Journal of 

 Conchology, November, 1877, vol. i., p. 268. 



J.C., ii., June, 1879 



