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•curs, as a juvenile, from the Philippines; Sowerby also gives 

 H. ruber, Leach, and H. sulcata, Philippi, as synonyms. 



This occurs all along the South Australian coast from the 

 Glenelg River to St. Francis Island. 



Haliotis conicopora, Peron. 



Haliotis conicopora, Peron, Voy. ''Terr. Austr.," vol. ii., 1816, 

 p. 80; Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1905, part 4, p. 520; 

 Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1908, vol. xxi. 

 (New Series), part 1, p. 380. 



Haliotis tubifera, Lamarck, Anim. S. Vert. (2nd Edition, 

 Deshayes, etc.), vol. ix., 1843, p. 24, No. 3, hab., the seas of New 

 Holland. 



Haliotis cunninghamii, Gray, King's Survey of Australia, vol, 

 ii., Appendix, p. 494, teste Gatliff and Gabriel, loc. cit. 



Haliotis granti, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Vic- 

 toria, 1902, vol. xiv. (New Series), part 2, p. 183, pi. x., and 1903, 

 vol. xv., p. 180. Type locality — Victoria. 



Hedley, loc. cit., drew attention to Peron ; s name and 

 locality, Kangaroo Island, and suggested its conspecificity with 

 H. tubifera, Lamarck, and H. granti, Pritchard and Gatliff. 

 I think, too that this is the shell figured by Philippi in Abbild 

 und Beschr. Conch., p. 147, pi. iv. and v. (Gen. 2 and 3), 

 under the name H . ncevosa, Martyns, and which, according to 

 Preiss, came from Mistaken Island, in New Holland. It has 

 both from the figure and description the pipe-like holes, which 

 in profile are well shown. 



From an examination of a considerable number of speci- 

 mens it seems open to question whether this is not really 

 a variety of H . ncevosa, Martyns, and though some individuals 

 can be easily distributed in their typical species, others cannot 

 be placed in one rather than the other. The validity of the 

 spiral cords and of the axial corrugations, and the extent of 

 projection of the spire above the dorsal surface, so as some- 

 times to show the basal angle and in other cases not, the con- 

 sequent downward slope of the surface from the suture to the 

 perforations, or even an upward slope or its rounded curve 

 all vary considerably. 



Taken all along the South Australian coastline, at Beach- 

 port measuring 17 '5 cm. by 13*5 cm. 



Haliotis iris, Martyn. 



Haliotis iris, Martyn, Univ. Conch., vol. ii., fig. 61; Martini 

 and Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., 1788, vol. x., p. 317, pi. 167, figs. 

 1612, 1613; Wood's Index Test., 1825, p. 175, No. 13, New Zea- 

 land; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1789, vol. vi., p. 3691, No. 19. 



H. iris, Gmelin, Lamarck, Anim. S. Vert. (2nd Edition, Des- 

 hayes, etc.), 1843, vol. ix., p. 23. 



H. iris, Martyn Deshayes, Encycl. Meth., 1830, vol. ii., p. 

 178; Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1846, fig. 37; Hutton, Man. New Zea- 



