August, 1937. Tlie Queensland Naturalist, 
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MOLLUSCAN NOTES No. 2. 
A TYPICAL COLLECTING TRIP TO TAMPIAN 
BEACH, NEAR EMU PARK, CENTRAL 
QUEENSLAND. 
By Herman F. Bernhard. 
Most of my trips to the seaside are made on Sun- 
days, between train times, and as specific dates are of 
no concern here I have not bothered to quote. 
Having equipped myself with lunch and a flask of 
black coffee, also shell collecting gear (empty tins, 
specimen jar, sticking knife, and shell bar for levering), 
1 took the 9 a.m. train for Emu Park from Rockhamp- 
ton, alighting at Phillip Street Siding and cutting across 
the causeway to Fisherman’s Beach, struck north towards 
the neck and head of Tampian Heads, thence across the 
neck on to Tampian Beach, heading for the rocks half 
way up the beach towards Boyd’s Point, named after 
Mr. Boyd, of Mt. Morgan Ltd., at the southern end of 
the beach. The rocks along Tampian Beach at low tide 
are part of the beach, and in 1934 between August and 
December proved a profitable hunting ground for me. I 
did a lot of limpet hunting there, especially the tiny 
ones ; incidentally limpets prefer smooth rocks free from 
coraline or other marine growth of a hard nature. To 
lift limpets off easily, one must not handle them with 
the fingers first. The limpet will try and move closer to 
the rock, making an airtight seal. Push the point of a 
knife between the shell and rock, and it cannot do this. 
It is thus easily lifted off the rock. When lifted and 
wanted for study, plunge each species in a separate jar 
of sea-water and leave them till they extend and come 
out of their shell, when they can easily be studied by 
magnifying glass as to colouration, shape, etc. 
NOTES ON THE SPECIES. 
(S.M. = Sydney Museum) 
Fissurella lanceolata Sby. — Keyhole oblong. 
Fissurella elaborata Sby. — Keyhole like a cross; rare. 
Montfortula conoides Rve. — Two small northern forms. 
Montfortula nigrosa Rve. 
Emarginula variegata Ad. — Body and siphon white, no 
markings. Creeping disk dirty blackish brown. 
Fissurella (Glyphis) Jukesi Rve. — Keyhole Limpet. 
Patelloida (unnamed), S.M. 593, etc. — Dark sap green, 
creeping disk or bottom of foot with pale whitish 
