311 ME. E. A. SMITH ON THE 



Pseudo- Australian Species. 



The following species have, erroneously I think, been quoted 

 as inhabiting Australia. 



1. Phtsa. BKUNNiENsrs, Sowsrhy, Con. Icon. fig. 99«-&. 

 Hah. Brunni Island, Australia. 



This island is situated near the south coast of Tasmania, and 

 therefore I do not include this species among the Australian Physce. 



2. Phtsa apekta, Sowerhy, Con. Icon. fig. 88 a-h. 

 Hah. " Near Hamilton, Australia." 



This species, too, like the preceding, is not Australian, the town 

 of Hamilton being in Tasmania. 



3. Phtsa sinuata, Gould. 



Hah. " New South Wales " (Sowerby, Con. Icon. fig.'55a-5). 



This species is described by Grould as having been brought 

 from the Fiji Islands ; and the locality assigned to it by Sowerby 

 is apparently one of very many errors of this description occur- 

 ring in the ' Conchologica Iconica.' 



4. Phtsa tongaka, Quoy ^ Gaimard. 

 Hah. "Australia" (Con. Icon. fig. 54). 



The authors of this species give the Tonga or Friendly Islands 

 as the locality of this species ; and Sowerby is most probably again 

 in error in citing Australia as the habitat ; for it is unlikely that 

 the same species of this genus occurs both in Tonga and Australia. 



5. Phtsa aiteiculata, Gassies. 



Hah. Australia (Sow. Con. Icon. pi. ix. fig. 67, pi. xii. fig. 67 h). 



I must here correct Sowerby in stating that his figure 

 was drawn from a specimen in the British Museum. This 

 species was not in the National Collection at the time when his 

 monograph was published. The locality, too, given by Sowerby 

 is incorrect, unless he considers New Caledonia, whence the 

 species was described by M. Gassies, to be in Australia. 



6. Phtsa kanakina, Gassies. 



Hah. " Kanakina," Australia (Sowerby, Con. Icon. fig. 68). 



Like the preceding, this species also is an inhabitant of New 

 Caledonia. M. Gassies imposed this name {hanaJcina) upon the 

 species because it was met with in a locality peopled by a tribe 

 called the " kanakas." The fact of Mr. Sowerby giving "kanakina" 

 (an adjective) as a place situated in Australia, shows the entire 



