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RECORDS OF TIIE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Order SCORPIONID^E. 
Family Pandinid^e. 
Subfamily Pandinini. 
Genus Hormurus, Thor ell. 
Hormurus karschii, L. Koch. 
Hob. British New Guinea. 
Hormurus caudicula , L. Koch. 
Loc. St. Joseph’s River (British New Guinea). 
Order OPILIONIDHS. 
Suborder OPILIONES PLAGIOSTETHI. 
Genus Gagrella, Stol. 
Gagrella hasselti , Thor. 
Hab. Ely River (British New Guinea). 
A REVIEW of the SYSTEMATIC POSITION of ZEMIRA , 
ADAMS. 
By Charles Hedley, Conchologist. 
The literary history of Zemira australis has chiefly consisted of 
a tossing from genus to genus without reason or explanation. 
The type species was originally described and figured by G. B. 
Sowerby, Junr.,* as Eburna australis from New South Wales. 
He adds that Dr. Gray considered it to be the Cancellaria spirata 
of Lamarck. This view was upheld by Kienery who reviewing 
Eburna , states that E. australis should remain among the Cancell- 
aria , where Lamarck had placed it. Deshayes J followed by accusing 
Sowerby of publishing two names, figures and descriptions for one 
shell, the first time by drawing it as a Cancellaria with three 
twists on the columella, the second time as an Eburna with none. 
Lamarck and his followers had however been deceived by a 
* Sowerby — The Conekological Illustrations, 1841, Pt. xx., Eburna , 
fig. 5. 
f Kiener — Coquilles vivantes, n.d. Eburna , p. 2. 
t Deshayes — Lamarck's Nat. Hist. Anim. s. vert. (2nd ed.) x., 1844, p. 
231. 
