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NOTES ON QUEENSLAND LAND-SHELLS. 



NOTES ON QUEENSLAND LAND-SHELLS ; 



By C. HEDLEY. 



To Mr. Brazier, F.L S., C.M.Z.S., of the Australian Museum, I am 

 indebted for many valuable corrections to my paper on Queensland 

 land-shells (Vol. V. pt. II.). 



Keferring to several shells which appeared in my list as natives 

 of the colony, he informs me that Elaia rapida, Pfr., is not Aus- 

 tralian, its only habitat is the New Hebrides, where Mr. Brazier 

 has himself collected it ; when first described it was stated to come 

 from New Zealand. Helicma fulgurata, Cox, is not a Queensland 

 shell, it is H. fulgoror, Gould, from the Fiji Islands. In giving 

 Port Curtis as the locality for Nanina marmorata, Tryon is certainly 

 wrong ; my correspondent remarks that he lias never seen a shell 

 like it from any part of Queensland ; he adds, " H, marmorata, 

 Cox, will not hold good, since the name was intended for the animal 

 and not for the shell. Dr. Cox changed the name to 1 circumcincta/ 

 and Tryon had no right to dub it marmorata ; besides, the name 

 was pre-occupied years ago by Ferrusrc." Another species, vvrongly 

 attributed to Queensland by Reeve and Cuming, is Helix lightfooti, 

 Pfr., to which the locality " Brisbane" was assigned. It is now 

 regarded as synonomous with Helix odontina, Morelet, a Mauritius 

 shell. 



Helix similaris, Fer., is not indigenous to Queensland. 

 Mr. Brazier possesses some of the original specimens collected by 

 Macgillivray, on which the supposed addition to our fauna wa9 

 founded, and they are, as he has pointed out in the Journal of 

 Conchology, Helix aridorum, Cox. Mr. Brazier classes the R. 

 strangeoides, Ccx, as a variety of R. splendidula, Pfr. ; alsoR. 

 beldomei, Brazier, as a variety of M. franklandiensis, Forbes 



