FRJiSHWATEE SHELLS OP AUSTRALIA. 315 



absence of care ia the preparation of his monograph. The 

 'Journal de Couchyliologie ' must hav^e been in his hand, for the 

 figure tliere given is copied, thougli badly as regards colour; and 

 yet the text could not have been consulted, or such an unpardon- 

 able error could never have been committed, and such an ab- 

 surdity as " the Kanakina Physa " would never have appeared. 



7. Phtsa castanea, Sowerhy. 



Hah. Australia (Sovfb. Con. Icon. fig. 86). 



The shell here figured was formerly considered by Sowerby 

 (' Grenera of Eecent and Fossil Shells,' Limnea, pi. ii. fig. 7) the 

 Fhysa castanea of Lamarck. This is European in its distribution. 

 As Sowerby has merely copied the original figure, and does not 

 know in whose possession the shell now is, it appears to me un- 

 justifiable on his part to state that it is Australian. The de- 

 scription of the figure, too, is incorrect, for neither in the original 

 nor the copy of it do the whorls appear " anguJar." Fhysa cas- 

 tanea of Sowerby's ' Concbological Manual,' pi. xiv. f. 310, is, again, 

 a distinct species. 



8. Phtsa attenuata, Sowerhy, Con. Icon. fig. 94. 

 Hah. Dulverton Lake, Australia. 



This is a Tasmanian species, and not from Australia. Lake 

 Dulverton is quoted by the Eev. Tenison- Woods, in his "Mono- 

 graph of the Freshwater Shells of Tasmania," as the locality for 

 P. mamillata, Sowerby (Proc. Eoy. Soc. Tasmania, 1875, p. 73). 



Ampullaeia. 

 The two following species are not considered Australian, as the 

 authenticity of the localities rests solely upon the statement 

 in the ' Conchologia Iconica,' a work notable for incorrect or 

 erroneous habitats. 



9. Ampullaeia polita, DesTiayes ; Con. Icon. fig. 35. 

 Hah. Port Jackson, Australia. 



10. Ampullaeia tuebikoides, Beeve, Con. Icon. fig. 37. 



11. TJnio supeebus, Lea. 



Unio superbus. Lea, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1846, vol. ix. p. 281, 



pi. xlii. fig. 11 ; Reeve's Con. Icon. fig. 281. 

 Unio velaris, Benson, Hanley, Bivalve Shells, Appendix, p. 385, pi. xxiJi. 



fig. 42. 



