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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Ecmanis igneus Gmelin. 
A strange sliell was determined as Buccinum igneum Gmelin (Syst. Nat., 
pt. vi, p. 3494, 1791, based on Martini 4, t. 127, f. 1217 : no loc.) ; on the same 
basis Bolten founded his Triton buccinutum (p. 125), while Reeve introduced 
Buccinum pictum (Conch. Icon., iii, pL x, sp. & f. 74. Dec. 1846) for a Philippine 
shell, which he regarded as the same. It was obviously referable to a genus 
not hitherto represented in the Australian fauna, and it was found to have a 
name given to it alone. Thus M oiler in the Isis 1832, col. 131, printed a list of 
mollusca prepared by Schmidt, and therein included a new genus Probosciclca 
for Buccinum igneum Lin. Gmelin', s edition of Limie's Sy, sterna Naturae was 
commonly simply cited as “Lin.” As Schmidt 7s name was preoccupied, having 
been used by Bruguiere (Ency. Meth., Vers. Int., p. 96, 1791) as long before as 
1791, the substitute Ecmanis was provided by Gistel (Nat, Thierr. Schulen, p. x, 
1848). 
.V smaller relation is the shell listed by Hedley as Pisania crcnilarum 
A. Adams, which belongs to the genus Jcannea Iredale. 
Family FITSIDJE. 
This name was recently introduced to replace the Colubrariidas, and in 
the Queensland list two species of Colubraria were included — viz., antiquata 
Hinds and tessdlata Reeve. Two more of this style of shell have to be added, 
so that the names may be corrected as follows: — 
Colubraria strepta Cossmann. 
Triton distortum Scliubert atid Wagner, Conch. Cab. (Martini & Chemnitz), vol. xii, p. 138, 
pi. 231, ff. 4074, 4075: no locality. 
Not Triton distortum Lamarck, Liste Expl. Ency. Meth., p. 4, 1816. 
Triton tortuosus Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. ii, pi. xvii, f. 74, June 1844: I. of Burias, Philippines. 
Not Triton tortuosus Brocchi. 
Tritomum streptum Cossmann, Essai Paleoconch. comp., 5th livr., p. 93, footnote Dec. 1903 : 
new name for above. 
This is the only species of Colubrnrw on the Queensland list, as tessellata 
Reeve above cited has already been corrected by Hedley to Cadudfcr decapitatus 
Reeve, and I here propose A 'ivitriton gen. nov. for Triton antiquatus Hinds. 
When Dali (Smithson MiscelL Coll. (qtly. issue), vol. 47, 1904) dealt with this 
group he allowed the last-named to belong to P levy giomu rex , proposed at the 
same time for Triton sculpt ills Reeve, but I cannot see any close relationship. 
This genus and species must be added to the Queensland list. 
Family NASSARII ILE. 
The species included in this family need subdivision so that the species 
can be quickly located. The family has been accurst since Marrat “worked” at 
it, and came to the fatuous conclusion that probably all the forms of the world 
represented £( one species.” This result is characteristic of the folly of lumping, 
as in nature the species are very well defined, and very easy to distinguish, 
while probably the groups will be as easily circumscribed, when thoroughly 
studied. 
