A Review oe the Land ilOLLUSCA op Westekx Australia. 
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and Gaimard re-recognised Ferussae’s form. Menke, however, could not 
understand them, and added some more s])oeies. Collections did not solve 
the problems, as the localities whence the shells came were not accurately dis- 
tinguished. Hence we have the great authority on land-shells of eighty years 
ago, Pfeiffer (Mon. Ilelic. viv., Vol. IV., ji. 477, 18.b9). allowing one species 
under the name melOj but arranging six varieties, rvliich he did not system- 
atically name, but used phrases only. The first words were afterwards re- 
corded as varietal names, and these read casUir/enn, Ininas, iinijor, alhiclus, the 
fifth without a distinctive adjective to begin witli, and the sixth, tenim, cit- 
ing' [ihysode.i Menke as equivalent. No localities wei'e known for these dif- 
ferent variations, and it is now impossible to determine these varieties. Cox 
mentioned Menke and Pfeitfer, and that he eonid add more varieties, but did 
not give any names. Hedley arranged the shells in the Australian Museum 
and gave names to two colour Mirielies as was the custom thtu, but did not 
publish these when he listed the species under the name Lipnnis inflatus 
Lamarck, with varieties, melo Q. & G., physodes Menke, castaiicus Pfeiffer, 
hulla Tdenke and rhodoslonta Gray. Pilsbry introdueed the new generic 
name Bnlhriemhryon, aiid using inflatns as the specific name, admitted as 
varieties melo Q. & G., rastieneus Deshayes, and added var. maevliferus and 
var, conispira, allowing piysodcs, India and liiodostonia as different although 
he could not recognise the two last-mentioned. Kobelt did not know what 
to do, so recorded most of these following Pilsbry’s descriptions, but not 
admitting his valuation. His account is too confused to need much discus- 
sion, his descriptions and figures being liereaftei' allotted as far as ptossible. 
Bothriemhrjmn castaneus Pilsbry 19(11). 
Plate II., fig. 2. 
imi—Botliriernhryon mflMus var. castanens Pilsbry, IMan. Couch. (Tryon), 
Ser. 2., \ ol XIH., p. . 1 , p|. T., figs. 11, 18, A|iril 2;i, ex Ile.shayes MS. 
(citing Vol. VIIL, p. 24.0, Lamarck, Hist. 2ud cd., where it does not 
occur), giving George Sound, We.st Amstralia— Doubtful Island 
South- We.st Australia. ’ 
Quoy and Gaimard figured as a variation of their Helix melo, a nar- 
rower brown shell with a broad white peripheral band. This variation was 
included by De.shayr.s, but he did not assign it any name, writing, “var. (ietas) 
eastanea : vitta eineta alba.” Pilsbry used the name castaneus as a varietal 
one, eop\iug Quoy and Gaimard’s figure, but de.seril)ing a .sjieeimeu .sent by 
Dr. Cox, wTiich he also figured. I am selecting the latter as the tvpe of 
Pilsbry s castaneus, as it was one of a series from Doubtful Island, and his 
specimen is here reflgiired. The Doubtful Island shells are constant in 
coloration and size, the sculidure being a little stronger, and the size a little 
less. Length 2.) nim., breadth 12.5 mm. 
Bothriembryon rhodostomus Gray 18.34, 
Plate IL, figs. 3-7. 
1834 — rhodostomus Gray, Zool. Roe. (Loud.), 18.34, p. 67, November 
25. New Holland (probably collected by Robert Brown at Goose 
Island, Recherche Group, M'.A.). 
Not Bithmus rhodostoma Reeve, and later authors. 
imO—Bothriernbryon inflatiis var. maruliferus Pilsbry, Man. Conch. (Tryon), 
Ser. II., Vol. XllL, p. 5, pi. L, figs. 12-14, Apl. 23. “King Gpor<^e’ 
Sound, Soutli-A est Australia.'’ = Recherche Group based on°a 
shell collected by Rossiter. 
