30 - HE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF TASMANIA. 
First of all, it may be necessary to note from what naturalists » — 
ae knowledge of the Tasmanian Mollusean Fauna is principally 
ved. The first that ever visited the island were undoubted! 
Banke and Solander, in the celebrated sepmliion of Captain Coo 
in 1770; yet from these, or any subsequent naturalist up to the 
time of the voyage of the “ Astrolabe,” it does not appear that Tas- 
manian or even Australian conchology received any development. 
No doubt collections were made, and these stored in the museums 
of London and Paris, awaited the advent of — menas Lamarck; 
ut, from actual observ rt! —_ sovsee , we find no othing 
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ceased to pee a.part in orientif discovery ; yet we sits no less 
than eight Tasmanian species with his name as an authority. 
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Lima and Pecten, cng in the second Ostrea, Malleus, Pedum, 
The shell described by him was taken from Lister (1685) and 
Rumphius (1705). He describes it as “ Shell nearly equivalve. 
twelve convex ar crossed by crenate stria 3} inches long by 25 
broad.” He says “it inhabits the Indian Ocean, and is oblong, 
pl. 17, fig. 154-5). item ead is described 1 in Linné’s genus 
Lister 42) ye bem: to inhabit Barbary, Guinea, and 
h America. Fuse a trapezium is also of Linné’s Murices, 
by Se 3 (Tab. 930, 931) and Rumphius (Mus. tab. 
29, E. , tab. 49 is said to inhabit this Indian Ocean, 
0 ie oh: above ne inches long. Sowerby says it occurs ™ 
the West Indies also.* Cyprea annulus is figured. by Rumphius, 
but not very succes cessfully. It is said by Linné to ‘mhabit pra 
and evr which is not very likely. It is said also 
from the Red Sea, and certainly its appearance is different from 
any of the Australian Cy I have been assured however 
that it that it occurs in Tasmania, where specimens in private collections collections 
© Jn this In thie case the shells of ck te pl being similar is no I 0 
that the animals are equally alike. = = © 
