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specimens to Mm named Mitra vincta for the Tasmanian 

 examples banded with dark orange and brown. 



Tenison- Woods, in 1877, says : — " This shell was given to 

 him by Mr. Legrand as M. vincta, but was unable to trace it," 

 probably through not having works of reference at his com- 

 mand. 



Mr. W. F. Petterd informs me that Mitra vincta = Weldii is 

 a very common species at Long Bay and Blackmans Bay, and 

 from the number of specimens that I have received at various 

 times it shows it to be a very variable species. 



I very much doubt its being found at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, as quoted by Eeeve. The variety named by A. Adams 

 as Mitra rufocincta was described from a single specimen, 

 slightly sea worn, locality not known, and the variety Mitra 

 vincta, A. Ad. is said to have come from Cape Natal. Paetel, 

 in his Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung, 1873, quotes it 

 from New Caledonia ; I have never seen it from there. Mr. 

 Sowerby, in the Thesaurus Conchyliorum, erroneously 

 attributes this species to C. B. Adams, and the locality 

 Jamaica. The two specimens figured by Sowerby No. 520, 

 521, are evidently true Tasmanian shells, and are the so- 

 called Mitra Weldii, Tenison- Woods. If it is proved that 

 Mitra Capensis, Dunker, is not found at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, the name is a misnomer, and that Mitra rufocincta, A. 

 Adams, should replace it. 



Hab.— Cape of Good Hope {Reeve) ; Natal, South Africa, 

 {Tryon) ; Long Bay and Blackmans Bay, Tasmania ( W. F. 

 Patterd, Rev. H. D. Atkinson) ; Hobson's Bay, Victoria (_/. 

 F. Bailey). 



NOTES ON THE DISCOVEEY OP A NEW 

 EUCALYPTUS. 



Br T. B. Moons. 



A few notes on the discovery of a new Eucalypt may be of 

 some interest to the Pellows of the Eoyal Society, especially 

 the introductory remarks, for which I am greatly indebted to 

 our illustrious honorary member — Baron von Mueller— who 

 thus forwards his determination on what he considers a most 

 important botanical discovery. 



Daring a recent exploration, for the Government, of the 

 country situated between the townships of New Norfolk and' 

 Victoria, an Eucalypt which had never come under my observa- 



