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Erosaria metavona Iredale. (late miliaris ). A rare 
shell. 
Staphylcea staphyloma L. 
Purpurosa facifer Iredale. (late limacina). Pale 
blue and red ends. 
Derstolida fluctuans Iredale. 
Erronea asellus L. 
Solvadusta sp. (Qy. vaticina Iredale or subviridis 
Reeve. ) 
Melicerona melvilli. Hidalgo. 
Palakigerosa cylindrica Born. 
Erronea cawrica-langion Iredale. 
Erronea caicrica-oblongata Melv. 
Arabica westralis (Type) Iredale. 
Mostly at Emu Park I got a fair number of unnamed 
species for the Australian Museum: — 
P ellasimnia. — Some are near bullata or semperi , and 
two others are unnamed. These belong to the 
Amphijeratidae. 
Phenacovolva neetarea Iredale. 
Margouula pyriformis Sby. 
Diminovula cavanaghi Iredale. 
Prionovolva brevis Sby. 
Volva volva L. (Weaver’s Shuttle). 
The study of the coloration of living molluscs is only 
of recent date, and I cannot at present give more details 
than I have, as the opportunity to study the animals 
under suitable conditions does not always present itself 
when out collecting. 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM ROSEDALE. 
AN EXCURSION TO MURCHTE’S SCRUB. 
(OCTOBER, 1935.) 
By L. G. DOVEY, Rosedale. 
For a number of years I have been on the lookout 
for flowering or fruiting specimens of several species of 
trees and shrubs which, though fairly common with other 
rain forest trees on the creek sides, have up to the present 
failed to supply material for their precise determination. 
In the hope of finding representatives of these, I decided 
on Sunday, the 6th October, to make an excursion with 
two of the local boys to a rain forest known as Murchies* 
Scrub, situated on Walsh’s Creek, some six miles from 
Rosedale in an easterly direction, and some two miles from 
Watalgan. It owes its name to the fact that an old 
pioneer named Murchie selected a small area on its north- 
ern boundary in the late ’sixties or early ’seventies, and 
