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Ilab. — Rossiter Bay, Recherche Archipelago, Great Aus- 

 tralian Bight {Captain Thomas Rossiter, 1841) ; Adelaide in 

 New Holland {Philippi) ; St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia, 

 sent by Beduall some years ago as Trochus odontis ? Wood ; 

 rocks at low tide Great Australian Bight {Professor Tate) ; 

 Cape Biche, King George's Sound, S.W. Coast of Australia 

 (/. Brazier) ; St. Vincent's Gulf, off the Semaphore in Largs 

 Bay, South Australia ( W. T. Bednall, 18S5) ; Portland, 

 Victoria (/. H. Gatlijf) ; North Coast of Tasmania and 

 Islands in Bass Straits ( W. F. Petterd) ; Patriarchs, East 

 Coast of Flinders Island, Bass Straits {Mr A. Simsori). 



6. Teochus (Zizyphinus) Meyeri, Philippi, sp. 



1848 Trochus Meyeri, Phillippi, Zeitscher fur Malak,p.l01. 



1849 Trochus Meyeri, Phillippi in Conch. Cab., 2nd edition, 



p. 279, No. 362, pi. 41, fig. 4. 

 Trochus armillatus, Kieaer, Coq. Vivantes Genre Trochus, 



pi. 17, fig. 2 (non Trochus armillatus, Wood). 

 1854 TrocJius levis, Hombron et Jacquinot, Voyage au 



Pole Sud, vol. 5 Zoologie, p. 56 ; Atlas plates Mol- 



lusca, pi. 14, figs. 17-18. 



1863 Zizyphinus armillatus, Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 3, fig. 



19, very bad (non Trochus armillatus, Wood). 



1865 Zizyphinus armillatus, Angas, Molluscan Fauna o£ 



the Province of South Australia. Proc. Zool. Soc, 



p. 180 (non Trochus armillatus, Wood). 



1873 Zizyphinus armillatus, Paetel, Catalog der Conch.- 



Sammlung, p. 73 (non Trochus armillatus, Wood). 



1873 Zizyphinus Meyeri (Dunker ! !), Paetel, Catalog der 



Conch.- Sammlung, p. 74. 

 1877 Zizyphinus armillatus, Tenison-Woods, Papers and 

 Proc. Royal Soc, Tasmania, p. 41 (non Trochus. 

 armillatus, Wood). 

 1880 Trochus 3Ieyeri, Phillippi, Fischer in Kiener's Coq. 



Vivantes, p. 76, No. 10. 

 This beautiful Zizyphinus has always been called armil- 

 latus, Wood. If any naturalist will take a specimen and 

 compare it with the Trochus armillatus, Wood, figured 

 in the Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus, pi. 5, 

 Trochus, fig. 5, 1828, he will at once see that the Tasmanian 

 shell is quite distinct in being more conical, and with flatter 

 whorls than Wood's shell. I append description from a Tas- 

 manian example : — Shell imperforate, conical, yellowish, 

 fawn or brown spotted, whorls 8 to 9 flat, ornamented with 

 seven spiral rows of granulous lirse, separated by smooth 



