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on Some Miscellaneous Coleoptera in the South Australian 

 Museum, with Descriptions of New Species/' by A. M. Lea, 

 F.E.S. ; and the following Notes by J. C. Verco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S., were read: — 



Altivasum flindersi, Verco, nom mut. 



Latirus aurantiacus, Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1895, vol. 

 xix., p. 89 (79); non L. aurantiacus, Denys de Montfort, Conchy- 

 biologie Systematique, etc., 1810, vol. ii., p. 531. 



Altivasum aurantiacum, Verco, Hedley, Commonwealth of 

 Australia, Department Trade and Customs, Fisheries, vol. ii., 

 part 2, 1913, p. 69. 



My South Australian type, dredged in 18J fathoms in 

 Backstairs Passage, was a unique immature living individual. 

 Some years later I dredged a larger, older, living example in 

 20 fathoms off Newland Head, and later still a dead eroded, 

 bored, and more mature specimen. The last two showed a 

 relatively very rapid expansion of the umbilicus. 



Mr. Hedley referred a very large shell, dredged by the 

 "Endeavour" in the west of the Australian Bight, to this 

 species, and made it the type of his new genus Altivasum. 



Mr. Tom Iredale advised Mr. Hedley that the name 

 Latirus aurantiacus was preoccupied by Montfort as the type 

 of the genus Latirus. Murex gibbulus, Gmelin, p. 3557, No. 

 125, Lamarck re-named Fusus filosos, Anim. s. Vert. Edition 

 2, 1843, vol. ix., p. 454, and Montfort further re-named it 

 Latirus aurantiacus. 



So I have changed the specific name to flindersi, as its 

 range is along the line of Flinders' south-coast voyage of dis- 

 covery. , 



Scaphella nodiplicata, Cox. 



Voluta nodiplicata, n. sp., Dr. J. C. Cox, Proc. Mai. Soc., 

 Lond., 1910, vol. ix., p. 146, pi. iii. 



Scaphella dannevigi, Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1912, vol. 

 xxxvi., p. 225, pi. xiii., figs. 1 and 2. 



Mrs. Irvine, of Tasmania, who has the type specimen of 

 Dr. Cox's species, drew my attention in January last to his 

 description and plate. His is plainly identical with mine, 

 though a less well-preserved example; so my name is with- 

 drawn in favour of his. His type locality is Rottnest Island, 

 near Fremantle, Western Australia, so that this is another 

 species which is found on the western part of our southern 

 shore, as well as on the western coast of Australia, and has 

 very likely come round the Leeuwin. 



