NOTE ON THE CORRECT HABITAT OF PATELLA 
(SCU TELL AS TRA) KERMA DEC EN'S IS, PILSBRY. 
By T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S , Curator of the Auckland Museum. 
( Communicated by the Secretary.) 
Some months ago, Prof. F. W. Hutton drew my attention to a 
communication from Mr. Brazier printed in the Proceedings of the 
Linnean Society of New South Wales (Yol. ix., 2nd Ser., p. 183) 
in which it is stated that South Africa is the true habitat of 
Patella kermadecensis, and that Mr. Pilsbry was mistaken in 
supposing that his specimens came from the Kermadec Islands. 
Apparently, Mr. Brazier arrives at this conclusion from the fact 
that a specimen in his possession, originally obtained from a New 
Zealand dealer notoriously inaccurate in the localities assigned to 
his specimens, has adhering to it two individuals of Patella 
cochlea?; Born , a species known to inhabit the Cape of Good 
Hope. He also considers it extremely improbable that such a 
large and conspicuous species as that described by Mr. Pilsbry 
should have been overlooked by the late Mr. John MacGillivray, 
the naturalist attached to H.M.S. " Herald," which ship, under 
the command of Capt. Denham, in the year 1854, made a stay of 
nearly four weeks at Sunday Island, the largest of the Kermadec 
Group. 
As Mr. Pilsbry's types were collected by myself at Sunday 
Island, I wrote a few lines with the intention of forwarding them 
to the Society. Just at that time, however, I received the 
following part of the " Proceedings," in which I noticed that Mr. 
Hedley had, on the strength of information furnished by my 
friend Mr. C Spencer, again asserted the claims of the Kermadec 
Islands (see Yol. ix., 2nd Ser., p. 465). Thinking that this was 
