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On the Australian Tertiary 

 Palliobranchs. 



By Professor Ralph Tate, F.G.S., &c, President. 



Plates VII.— XI. 



[Read October 5tli, 1380.] 



Bibliography. — Among the fossils collected by Captain Sturt 

 during his journey down the River Murray, and. figured in his 

 •work " Two Expeditions into the Interior of South Australia," 

 1834, is one terebratulid. The shell has been described and 

 variously named by subsequent authors, and is referred to in 

 this paper as Waldkeimia Garibaldiana, Davidson. Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby, in Count Strzelecki's " Physical Description of New 

 South Wales and Van Diemen's Land," 1845, describes and 

 figures a second palliobranch as Terebratula compta, which I 

 have removed to the genus Magasella. In 1862 Mr. Davidson 

 described Sturt's terebratulid in the " Geologist," vol. v., under 

 the name of Waldkeimia Garibaldiana, at that time believing it 

 to be from the Tertiary beds of Malta. In the same year 

 appeared the Rev. J. E. Tenison "Woods' " Geological Obser- 

 vations in South Australia," in which Sturt's terebratula is 

 confounded with T. compta, Sow. ; but in the "Trans. Phil. Soc, 

 Adelaide," for 1865, he figures and describes it as a new species 

 under the name of Waldkeimia imbricata. In the same paper 

 Mr. AVoods describes Waldkeimia gigas, W. Crouckii, and shows 

 that Terebratula compta belongs to Terebratella, in which genus 

 he describes a second, species as T. Tenisoni. Additional species 

 are made known by Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., in a paper entitled 



' On some Species of Terebratulina, Waldheimia, and Terebra- 

 tella from Mount Gambier and the Murray River Cliffs." 



(Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1876). Of the five species 

 herein described and figured: — Waldkeimia Gambierensis, which 

 is identical with W. grandis, Woods, and W. Garibaldiana, 

 were previously known ; a Terebratella is erroneously referred 

 to T compta, it is a species closely allied to the recent 

 JTagasella Cumingiana, I have named it M. Woodsiana. The 

 remaining two species, Waldkeimia Taylori and Terebratulina 

 Davidsoni, are decidedly new. 



The Rev. J. E. Tenison "Woods describes and figures (Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, JST.S.W., 1878) some palliobranchs from the Miocene 



