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BY C. HEDLEY. 459 



The only reference in literature to this species as Australian 

 seems to be that of Try on* who curiously omits all the localities 

 supplied by his predecessors, and cites only "Australia." 



I have not personally collected a specimen, but I purchased an 

 example from Mr. A. F. Hemsley, of Cooktown, Queensland, who 

 told me that it was obtained in the neighbourhood of that port. 



Dr. Dall has instituted the subgenus Paralagena for the species. f 



Buccinum assimile Reeve. 



Under the name of Cantharus {Tritonidea) assimilis, AngasJ 

 described this species as found " under stones at low water, 

 Watson Bay." His account suggested that he gathered what is 

 now known as Tritonidea australis Pease. I therefore enquired 

 of Mr. Smith if these names were synonymous. He replied that 

 the species are distinct, but that Reeve's assimile is a synonym 

 of the Mediterranean shell Purpura picta Scacchi. Bucquoy, 

 Dautzenbeig, and Dollfus§ wrongly cite it as a synonym of 

 Pisania d'Orbignyi Payr. 



So Buccinum assimile can be struck off the list of Australian 

 shells. Another Mediterranean shell imposed upon our fauna is 

 Clathurella purpurea Montagu, which, under the name of C. 

 relicosa, Adams & Angas|| described as from Middle Harbour. 



Again, BertinU has reported the West Indian Donax denticu- 

 latus Linne as from Port Stephens. 



Strombus campbellii Griffith k Pidgeon. 



Griffith <fc Pidgeon in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Ed. Griffith, 

 Vol.xii. 1834, p.600, Pl.xxv. fig.6. 



Authors generally (for instance, Watson, Chall. Exped. Zool. 

 xv. p. 418) have applied to this species the name Strombus 



* Man. Conch, iii. 1881, p. 15. 



t Smithsonian Miscell. Coll. 47, 1904, p. 132. 



t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 187. 



§ Moll. Mar. Eoussillon, i. 1882, p.27. 



|| Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 420. 



IT Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2), iv. 1881, p.82. 



