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Notes and Additions to South Australian Fauna. 



Lepidopleurus liratus, Ad. and Ang., 1864 (Tereno- 

 chiton, Iredale). This shell has heretofore been labelled in 

 our collections. "L. inquinatus, Reeve, 1847." Many years 

 ago I pointed out to my friends that it did not a^ree with 

 the New Zealand shell. We are indebted to Mr. Iredale 

 for its identification with L. Uratus, Ad. and Ang. 



Lepidopleurus badius, Hed. and Hull (Terc/iochiton, 

 Iredale). (Rec. Aust. Mus., vol. vii., No. 4, 1909.) I am 

 glad to be able to place this interesting Lepidopleurus on 

 our South Australian list. On December 28, 1917, Mr. F. 

 L. Saunders and I visited Cape Jervis, when Mr. Saunders 

 was successful in finding two nice specimens. (Unfortunately 

 my bottle of Lepidopleurus was washed out of my pocket, 

 so to Mr. Saunders belongs the honour of finding the first 

 fully-identified specimen.) On March 14, 1918, I again 

 visited Cape Jervis, and was successful in getting another. 

 In February, 1917, I found a carinated Lepidopleurus, which 

 I put aside for identification. It approaches L. badius very 

 closely, but shows some differences, and will need further 

 investigation to accurately determine the question. Mr. 

 Saunders kindly lent me his specimen to send over to Messrs. 

 Gatliff and Gabriel, and later to Mr. Hull, who all have 

 stated that it is certainly a typical L. badius, previously only 

 recorded from New South Wales. 



Lepidopleurus columnarius, Hed. and Mav, 1918 

 (Terenochiton, Iredale). Messrs. Gatliff and Gabriel (Roy. 

 Soc Vic, vol. xxx., N.S., pt. i., p. 24) have identified 

 Dr. Torr's L. pelar/icus (Torr : Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 

 vol. xxxvi., p. 165) with the latter species, and so L. 

 columnarius must be added to our South Australian list. 



Ischnochiton uxlsoni, Sykes, 1896 (Proc. Mai. Soc, vol. 

 ii., pt. 2, July, 1896, p. 89). In addition to the two speci- 

 mens recorded by Dr. Torr in his valuable paper on South 

 Australian Poluplacophora (Trans. Roy. Soc S. Austr., vol. 

 xxxvi., 1912) "as probably all that have been found in South 

 Australian Polyplacophora (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., vol. 

 at Aldinga Bay about seventeen years ago. 



Ischnochiton athinsoni, Iredale and May, 1916 (Proc. 

 Mai. Soc, vol. xxii., pts. 2 and 3, Nov., 1916). This is 

 another addition to our South Australian fauna. In 

 January, 1917, Dr. Torr and I spent some time at Port 

 Lincoln, and we both collected a nice series of a shell we 

 at the time referred to a variety of /. crispus, Reeve. Mr. 

 Gatliff suggested at the time that our shell might possibly be 

 Iredale and May's I. athinsoni. Recently I have been able 

 to pay more attention to this group, and Mr. May has 



